Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 15
Building and Roads (B&R) ad hoc committee member Vicky Kalia along with others visited various areas of the city and identified 14 new illegal colonies coming up in the city.
The colonies fall in Jalandhar Central and Jalandhar Cantt constituency. He had recently showed the list of 18 illegal colonies that were carved out by a single coloniser on 105 acre.
Notably, Kalia has been raising the issue for long and in the recently held General House meeting, he had also questioned the Mayor as to what action he was taking against defaulters.
Today, Kalia went to meet Municipal Corporation Commissioner Karnesh Sharma and handed the list of 14 illegal colonies to him asking him to ask officers of the Town Planning Department and other higher officials to accompany them to these sites, where illegal colonies have been built or are getting constructed.
“I don’t understand one thing. Even after highlighting several times that illegal colonies are coming up in the city, why isn’t there any kind of action? There is no seriousness. But we have also decided that we don’t want to sit quietly and let the guilty walk freely. MC can recover high amount of money from colonisers, but nobody is doing anything,” he said,
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