BMP Administrator promises to look into people's problems

BMP Administrator promises to look into people's problems

The Hindu

Association wants narrow roads to be developed

BANGALORE: Unauthorised constructions, delay in getting a khata transfer, bad roads and absence of street lights. These were some of the grievances put forth by residents of southern parts of the city before the Administrator of Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) Dilip Rau on Saturday.

Mr. Rau, who held the grievance redressal meeting at the South Zone office in Jayanagar 2nd block, assured the people their problems would be looked into.

Members of the Reserve Bank Employees' Association submitted a memorandum to Mr. Rau and urged him to get all narrow roads in Jayanagar developed with concrete instead of asphalt mix. Residents of Deepanjalinagar complained that the crematorium in the area did not have proper illumination. They urged him to get more lights installed there.

`Enforcement clinic'

To regulate and check unauthorised constructions and building bylaw violations in the city, the BMP organised an "enforcement clinic" for its engineers on Saturday.

Aimed at training the engineers on issuing commencement certificates, initiating action and legal measures in cases of stay orders, effectively enforcing building bylaws and complying with stay orders issued by various courts, the "enforcement clinic" laid down several guidelines for the engineers.

BMP Commissioner K. Jairaj directed assistant executive engineers and executive engineers them to regularly inspect all new buildings from the date of commencement of construction. If required the legal cell could be contacted for filing caveats before the High Court, Civil Court and Karnataka Administrative Tribunal, he told them. He authorised them to go ahead with demolition of deviated portions of buildings if owners failed to comply with provisional order and confirmation order notices.