Chandigarh residents seek one authority for Tricity
Aarti Kapur | TNN | Updated: Jan 21, 2019, 07:32 IST
Members of Chandigarh Residents Association Welfare Federation held annual house meeting on Sunday.CHANDIGARH: During their annual general house meeting on Sunday, the members of Chandigarh Residents Association Welfare Federation (Crawfed) said that they wanted a metropolitan development authority (MDA) to chalk out plans for public facilities in the Tricity. The members added that a proposal regarding the same would be given to the Prime Minister.
“The association will send a request to the PM and highlight projects that have been lying in limbo due to lack of coordination among Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali administrations,” said chairman of Crawfed Hitesh Puri.
He added that the issues like common public transportation system, stray cattle, stray dog menace, common garbage processing plant, sewerage system on border areas and vendor registration had plagued the Tricity for long. “With increase in population, the pressure on Chandigarh is mounting, more because there is no proper plan in place for Panchkula and Mohali,” members of the federation said.
Puri said that the member of the various resident welfare associations (RWAs) agree that Panchkula and Mohali lack of basic civic amenities. Referring to Mohali, he said that the police there were reluctant to file FIRs.
The members of the association said that the MDA was crucial for setting up a common police emergency control system in the Tricity; creating a sub-group to maintain law and order and if medical trauma centres are strengthened in Mohali and Panchkula then PGI’s burden can be shared easily.
Last year in July, UT administrator V P Badnore, chief minister of Haryana M L Khattar, chief minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh discussed to have a single regulatory body for the Tricity.
Haryana CM had suggested that the civic bodies of the three cities could take up tasks of waste management and metro connectivity. He had also suggested that there was a need to form an advisory council with representatives from Panchkula, Chandigarh, and Mohali. UT administrator Badnore supported the proposal and decided to rope in residents of Panchkula and Mohali in the advisory council.
“The association will send a request to the PM and highlight projects that have been lying in limbo due to lack of coordination among Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali administrations,” said chairman of Crawfed Hitesh Puri.
He added that the issues like common public transportation system, stray cattle, stray dog menace, common garbage processing plant, sewerage system on border areas and vendor registration had plagued the Tricity for long. “With increase in population, the pressure on Chandigarh is mounting, more because there is no proper plan in place for Panchkula and Mohali,” members of the federation said.
Puri said that the member of the various resident welfare associations (RWAs) agree that Panchkula and Mohali lack of basic civic amenities. Referring to Mohali, he said that the police there were reluctant to file FIRs.
The members of the association said that the MDA was crucial for setting up a common police emergency control system in the Tricity; creating a sub-group to maintain law and order and if medical trauma centres are strengthened in Mohali and Panchkula then PGI’s burden can be shared easily.
Last year in July, UT administrator V P Badnore, chief minister of Haryana M L Khattar, chief minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh discussed to have a single regulatory body for the Tricity.
Haryana CM had suggested that the civic bodies of the three cities could take up tasks of waste management and metro connectivity. He had also suggested that there was a need to form an advisory council with representatives from Panchkula, Chandigarh, and Mohali. UT administrator Badnore supported the proposal and decided to rope in residents of Panchkula and Mohali in the advisory council.
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