Despite MC appeal, residents continue to visit zonal offices undeterred

Ludhiana: Though the civic body has made an appeal to the general public for not coming to the offices for their works, on Wednesday also people were seen entering the zonal offices. While in zone D a gatekeeper was present at the main entrance and was trying to stop people, but in zone B there was no check on the movement of people inside.
Outside the zone B office people had gathered many prospective customers around their tables for filling every kind of form. This despite the MC commissioner, Pardeep Sabharwal, issuing important email IDs and phone numbers for public convenience.
In the orders issued by the commissioner late on Tuesday he had requested the general public to visit the MC offices only if there was some kind of emergency, otherwise people should avoid doing the same. He claimed that coronavirus had reached the officers and now it had become important to save officials and staff from getting infected with the disease, or else the entire system would collapse.
As per the commissioner, a complaint box had been kept outside the zonal offices, where people can put their complaints and letters. Before entering the offices the temperature of employees and officials will be checked and their hands will be sanitised. In case anyone from the public needs to enter the office then even his temperature will be monitored and hands sanitised.
There will be no entry in MC offices for people coming in groups of some organisation for handing over memorandum as gathering is not allowed. So memorandum or demand letters will be accepted only on email IDs or Whatsapp of numbers of officials.
A random visit at zone D office, where on Tuesday many violations were seen, highlighted that there was improvement in the situation. There was less rush at suvidha centres and at entrance gate an employee was stopping people from entering the office and a complaint box was also kept at the entrance. But despite all this some of the residents were adamant on going inside and went to hand over their documents.
Meanwhile, at zone B office there was no such kind of arrangement at the entrance and people were freely going inside and social distancing was also being ignored. Even in zone A office, there was no check on public movement. Though an employee was checking the fever at the entrance but people were reaching the officials personally and in corridors too they were seen standing without any check..
At zone C office too arrangements were made and only one entry gate was left opened to the public. The suvidha centre in zone C is very congested so at a time only five persons are being allowed inside. But the officials claimed that people do not listen to them as in morning one person had to made a complaint about some illegal activity in colony and he brought five other people along. They claimed that they had kept a complaint box at the entrance but even then people wanted to hand over the complaint personally.
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Additional commissioner (Sanyam Aggarwal): adcmcludhiana@gmail.com
Additional commissioner (Rishipal): additionalcomm.mcl@gmail.com
Zonal commissioner, zone A: acdmcl1@gmail.com
Zonal commissioner, zone B: zonalcomm.zb@gmail.com
Zonal commissioner, zone C: zonalcomm.zcmcl@gmail.com
Zonal commissioner, zone D: zonalcomm.d@gmail.com
Secretary (Neeraj Jain): zonalcomm.zcmcl@gmail.com
Secretary (Jasdev Sekhon): jassekhon@gmail.com
Secretary (Tajinder Panchi): singhtajinderpal09@gmail.com
Secretary (Surinder Kumar): secmcl01@gmail.com
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