Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 5

Days after the MC’s building branch officials made allegations against the ruling and Opposition political leaders for putting pressure on them in favour of residential buildings, senior Congress leaders Parminder Mehta and Sarabjit Singh Bunty have suggested the MC to take daily report from the officials regarding illegal constructions in the city.

Parminder Mehta said, “The building branch officials should be directed to make videos and take photographs of illegal constructions and then challans should be issued against the violations. Besides, the building inspectors must have information about the approved building maps under their respective area. The staff concerned should be asked to file a report on the constructions on a daily basis. Moreover, the complete challan fee should be recovered from violators within a given time.”

“There is a big nexus among the MC’s building branch officials, but they are blaming the councillors and politicians for illegal constructions”, said Mehta.

Notably, officials concerned of the MC’s building branch in all the four zones claimed in a report related to illegal constructions that politicians of the ruling as well as the Opposition parties put pressure on them in favour of residential constructions. The officials concerned of Zone A claimed that most political pressure was in Zone A. Similarly, officials of Zone B, C and D claimed in the report that the most political pressure was in their respective zone.

Meanwhile, Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu said there was no political pressure on any official. “A meeting will be held with building branch officials in this regard on Wednesday. We will ask them to tell us that who is putting political pressure on them,” he said.

We face political pressure: Officials

Officials of the MC’s building branch in all four zones claimed in a report related to illegal constructions that politicians of the ruling and Opposition parties put pressure on them in favour of residential constructions. Officials of zones A B, C and D claimed that most political pressure was in their respective zones