JAMMU: Baldev Singh Billawaria, chairman Public Health Sanitation Committee of Municipal Corporation of Jammu, toured the Trikuta Nagar area of the city to check the unauthorized slums in the vacant plots. He was accompanied by Ward 53 Councilor Jyoti Devi, Health Officer Dr. Sudesh Gupta and other corporation officials. Billawaria went to the spot and saw that in a large part, hundreds of slums were built on all the private lands. When he talked to the people living in these slums, it came to know that each slum is paying rent up to Rs 1500 per month, but there is no arrangement for toilets in these slums, nor are any septic tanks built.
On asking people, they told that they go out in the open for defecation because where there is no such arrangement; they are forced to go there. In such a situation, Billawaria give direction the officials with immediate effect to find out the owner of this land and pay them a hefty fine and give them notice that they should build toilets and septic tanks within 15 days according to the number of people if they do not do so, then all these slums should be removed and legal action should be taken against the plot owner for violating the rules in the area.
He said that the corporation officials should investigate such slums all over the city and strict action should be taken against the plot owner with immediate effect if there are no toilets and septic tanks etc. because such slums are making fun of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Clean India Mission and by keeping the rules completely by the plot owners, these plots have been made a means of earning. He said that no such person will be spared who is doing the work of spreading dirt. In such a situation, there is a need to inserted people on these settlements.