Category: Nagpur Local

NAGPUR: Approximately 71 well-to-do localities, including some well-known commercial areas such as Mahal, Sitabuldi and Sadar, continue to be notified to slums. Ironically, 33 non-existent areas such as Sanjay Nagar, Timber Market zopadpatti still appear in the list of notified slums.

The violation came to light during the ongoing process of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) to award ownership rights to slum-dwellers.
The NMC has never received a revised list of notified slums from the state government in 48 years. The civic body continued to add more areas to the list of notified slums but did not erase the names of the developed areas. According to the NMC numbers, there are 453 slums in the region.

Apart from Mahal, Sitabuldi, Sadar, other popular tony areas in the list of notified slums are Chhaoni, Mominpura, Bajeria, Hansapuri, Khamla, Gopal Nagar, Subhash Nagar, Bhamti, Dabha, Hazari Pahad, Pandhrabodi, Siraspeth, Manewada, Tulsi Bagh, Somalwa, Sahakar Nagar, Chinchbhuvan, Sakkardara, Bidipeth, Nandanvan, Killa, Baldharpura, Shanti Nagar, Binaki, New Mangalwari, Wathoda, Satranjipura, In BJP City President and Mahal resident Pravin Datke told TOI there is an immediate need to delete the names of developed areas from the list of notified slums.

Congressman Sandip Sahare said it was an “injustice” against the actual slums. “Some areas of the well-developed and economically well-off population have also been recorded as slums. NMC, central and state governments are providing funds to provide basic amenities in the slums. Leaders of the wealthy regions are taking money from the slums to their localities. Some well-to-do areas have therefore stayed on the list of notified regions, “he said.

Another reason is the NMC cannot take an action against unauthorized constructions in notified slums at par with other areas. Leena Buddha, of the NGO Center for Sustainable Development, said that only the removal of names of well-to-do and non-existent localities will reveal the true status of the city at all levels. “I proposed to the NMC that the names of 104 slums should be reviewed and omitted from the register. It gives a wrong and bad picture of the city when there are 453 slums on the index. The revision should also be carried out as soon as all residents in the area receive titles and the community provides all kinds of facilities, “she added.

The NMC official said a proposal would soon be sent to the government to bring about the change. “The NMC has the authority to alert the slum and can not conduct removal,” he said.
For the last few months, the civic body has begun a survey to classify properties, inhabitants and give ownership rights to slum-dwellers on land owned by the state government, NMC, NIT and private individuals.

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The municipal administration has stressed that Nagpur city should be the top priority in cleanliness. But water is being diverted by the health department. Two companies will be appointed by the end of November as the Kanak Resources Company, which is responsible for collecting the waste from the houses, will be terminated. Citizens of the city are suffering because Kanak Resources Company is not conducting waste collection work as the deal will be terminated. Ramdaspeth, Civil Line, Dharampeth, Gokulpeth, Sitabardi, Itwari, Mahal and other areas are showing garbage piles. This has created the possibility of withdrawal of municipal corporation in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The efforts to bring Nagpur from the rankings to the top 5 cities in the Clean India Campaign have been dashed. The municipality has divided the city into two packages for garbage collection. Two companies have been recruited from Zone One to Five in Package-1 and from six to ten in Package-1. The deadline is 90 days to start the garbage collection work. Both companies want to start work on November 16. There is a need to collect garbage in two shifts. Therefore, additional vehicles will be required to replace the vehicles. But there are likely to be a lot of citizens in the process of working in the shift. Vehicles collecting garbage were arriving daily in posh settlements like Ramdasepet, Dantoli, Dharampeth, Civil Line, Gokulpeth, Lakshminagar, Pratapnagar. But this has led to irregularities since Kanak’s decision to cancel the deal. The lifting mechanism is collapsed. In this case, the unimportant cure for the suburbs. According to the information received, there is no garbage in the outlying areas of North, East, South Nagpur. Therefore, citizens have to waste garbage on waste roads or open plots. Cleaning staff were provided with GPS watches. But that doesn’t seem to be much use. They have an arbitrary start. The overall sanitation system in the city is shaky. Kanak should do as he has decided. Commissioner Abhijit Bangar has taken the matter that garbage is not collected daily from house to house. The more years Kanak signed, the more time he was given. The tender was removed. But Kanak did not qualify. So new companies were hired. As long as Kanak has a responsibility. Until then, the work must be done as decided. If garbage collection vehicles do not come daily, citizens should complain to the Health Department, Zone Office. That will lead to appropriate action. It is the responsibility of the municipality to settle the complaints regarding cleanliness. Abhijit Bangar, Commissioner Municipal Corporation.
Appointed two companies
The municipal administration is working on a new system for collecting waste from the home and market areas. Two companies have been appointed for this. It contains a. Yes. Enviro Infra Project Pvt. Ltd. Thane and BVG India Limited, Pune. Both companies have to start work on November 16. In a month and a half, 472 vehicles, over 1500 manpower, infrastructure will be installed. Thereafter, the collection of waste from the house to house will be started. There is a variety of conditions involved.  The controversy before appointment For two packages, BVG India Limited 1656 had tendered the collection of waste at the rate of Rs.1800 However, the company can work for only one of these packages according to the conditions. So the company agreed to work for package two. Package J is a second-ranked Ag. The company has announced that it will pay more than Rs.1900. This will increase the financial burden of billions of rupees on the municipality. There are 100 garbage collection stations in the city. This is where waste is stored. In the new system, ten transfer stations will be set up.