My Neighbourhood Matters – Sector Swarn Nagri residents demand community centre, Mother Dairy, civic redress

NOIDA: Sector Swarn Nagri in Greater Noida is at a distance of 3.6 km from the Greater Noida Authority. Yet the demand for a community centre and a Mother Dairy booth for the sector has been pending since over a decade. While the allotment of 1200 plots in the sector was completed in 1998, it is currently 80% inhabited, comprising nearly 5000 residents.
In the absence of utility services, these residents have to go to neighbouring sectors such as Alpha, Beta, Delta etc. While the residents have written over six dozen letters to the authority on the matter, they claim no redress so far.
Apart from that, the sector faces a lack of civic upkeep where garbage tending has gone to minimal leaving heaps of garbage on the roads and parks, the boundary wall of parks and the water tank in the sector are broken and green belts are full of overgrown shrubs etc.
“It has been almost 24 years since the Swarn Nagri sector has been settled, now a lot of residents have built their own houses here which makes for 8-% occupation now. For nearly a decade we have been demanding a community centre and a Mother Dairy for the sector. For this, we have written about 80 to the Greater Noida Authority in the last 7 years as I am the RWA president of Sector for the third time in a row now and pursuing this matter. But there’s no redress so far,” said Rajesh Bhati RWA President Sector Swarn Nagari Greater Noida.
While Bhati apprised that former CEO Narendra Bhooshan had assured action on the matter and that tenders will be taken out soon, he maintained that the job is still pending after about six months of that meeting which was held in December. “To date no action has been taken for any community centre for the sector nor movement on the tender process. On the contrary, a decision to build community centres in 8 other sectors of Greater Noida has been taken which does not include our Swarn Nagri,” said Bhati who adds that residents of the sector have to go to neighbouring sectors such as Alpha, Beta, Delta etc to avail the facility of a community centre for any function, meeting and also for Mother Dairy services.
While the matter was also taken up by representatives of the Federation of Residents Welfare Associations of Greater Noida under Devendra Tiger, former CEO, Bhooshan had told TOI that the construction of the community centres will be done in three phases, starting with the most populated residential sectors. “These community centres will be built with a different design and will include club facilities, a common hall along with two rooms, adequate parking and an open area,” Bhooshan had said.
Bhati also complained about the lack of civic upkeep in the sector. “We had about 27-28 sweepers earlier out of which only 12 are coming of late. The result is that garbage is left untended and stinking in the sector. Apart from that, the parks and green belts are wanting pruning as overgrown shrubs and plants are found everywhere. Also, boundary wall and gates are broken of parks and the water tank of the sector,” said Bhati.
Officials from Greater Noida Authority assured to look into the problem soon.