Rajkot Cong dashboard fills up with civic woes

Rajkot: While the party did not garner people’s trust to run the civic body, Rajkot citizens from across city’s 18 municipal wards seem to be finding the Congress more reliable as a problem solver. No wonder than that for all their civic woes, people reach out to the opposition party’s dashboard to give voice to their grievances after they receive no sympathy from the existing helpline.
While Congress managed to get only four seats out of 72 in the last municipal elections, its dashboard, which it had started started online dashboard from June 17, has been flooded with 122 complaints in only 13 days. One such complaint from ward number 8 reads: “Builders show parking area only to get completion certificates, but thereafter construct commercial complexes there. There are many such construction in Nana Mauva area but the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) is doing nothing.”
“We don’t get water with full force. While we have registered several complaints on RMC helpline, nobody seems to care,” reads another complaint from ward number 15.
The dashboard has received 19 complaints regarding drinking water, 16 of sanitation, 8 of streetlights and 26 of drainage and gutter problems — all from every ward of the city.
Leader of opposition in RMC, Bhanuben Sorani said, “We have received over 122 complaints which we have forwarded to the municipal corporation as well as to the officer concerned in the administration. We also follow up all complaints to ensure it gets resolved. So far, 80 percent complaints have been resolved, while a few more like building new roads takes time and are pending.”