Waluj Mahanagar 2 locals seek basic amenities

AURANGABAD: Scores of Cidco Waluj Mahanagar 2 residents including entrepreneurs, lawyers and businessmen marched to the Cidco administrative building on Wednesday demanding the administration to provide all the basic amenities including drinking water, street lights, gardens in open spaces and proper roads in the area.
The residents said that the administration has been ignoring their plea since years.
On Thursday, Yogesh Thorat, a lawyer who was among those who led the march, said that the Cidco Waluj Mahanagar 2 area is a Cidco notified area, of which 75% of the total area was developed by a Gurgaon-based real estate firm in 2003 while the remaining 25% was basically the growth centre of Cidco.
Cidco had made an agreement with the company and had approved the development work in the area known as south city or Waluj Mahanagar 2. The company was supposed to carry out the developmental work and provide basic amenities to the locals under the supervision of Cidco authorities. However, no facilities were made available to the public and that the Cidco administration too has failed to take any action against the firm, Thorat said.
Meanwhile, by adopting fraudulent means amid opposition from the south city residents, the firm had transferred the administration of the area to Teesgaon gram panchayat, Thorat added.
He further said for the last 18 years, the south city residents have been suffering at the behest of the Cidco as it has acted hand in glove with the real estate firm and allowed it to escape without completing the development works in the notified area. He also pointed out that the company was still active in the area as it has sold its absolute ownership properties to the buyers for which the Cidco has issued a no-objection certificate.
Thorat said that they demonstrations in front of the Cidco office in the city demanding action against the firm. The demands included providing all the basic amenities and carrying out development works which the firm had left midway. “We have brought all these facts to the notice of the Cidco authorities in Mumbai as well as in Aurangabad. The Aurangabad authorities have agreed to address our issues on a positive note. We expect them to keep their promises otherwise we would have further to pursue legal options, and this we made clear to the authorities concerned too,’’ Thorat said.