Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 25: Citizens’ Forum Jammu has demanded decongestion of city, adequate parking facilities and health clinics in mohallas.
Forum president, RK Chadha said that the urban planners in Jammu need to give serious thoughts while revisiting the master plans for the city. “The revised master plans generally suit the violators of the earlier plans. It is regretted that no serious thought is being given by the planners in the Government”, he added.
He said that some of the Forum members with technical educational and professional background have formed a plan for creating enormous parking space in the city besides sufficient space for mohalla clinics in the Jammu city by decongesting the city in a planned manner.
Chadha further said the parking places created will also effect in controlling the traffic chaos of the Jammu city. He requested the Governor for creating disciplined transport system with fixation of fare of all kind of vehicles which at present are charging as per their own goodwill.
He said that the Forum also demands allowing Ola and Uber cabs to run their taxi transportation system in Jammu, proper management of parking and allowing the vehicles to go inside the Jammu airport. “At present only so called VIPs and relatives of the VIPs are allowed to take their vehicles inside the airport,” he added.
The Forum president was joined, as signatories to the statement, by other members including Additional DGP (retd) S S Wazir, former PSC Member, Dr R Madan, Prof Aman Rathore (former PSC member), Arun Gupta (chairman, MIER), Arun Sharma (retd Chief Engineer), R K Handa (retd Vice Chairman JDA), S K Gupta (retd Chief Engineer) and M S Kapoor (retd Engineer).
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