Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 23: The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) continuing its special drive against illegal rehries/pharies and encroachers causing traffic congestion and obstructing free movement of pedestrians on footpaths today conducted a drive under the supervision of Joint Commissioner (A), JMC, Rajesh Sharma and Assistant Commissioner (Rev.), JMC, Vinakshi Koul.
The drive was conducted in the areas viz Ranbir Market, Indira Chowk, Shalamar Road, City Chowk, B.C. road and Mahespura. During the drive the enforcement team of JMC removed encroachments and cleared the footpaths and pavements. The team seized about 10 illegal rehris plying without licence from these areas and seized one truck of material displayed by the shopkeepers/phariwalas in front of their shops and footpaths causing traffic congestion and free flow of pedestrians.
The drive was launched on the instructions of Commissioner, JMC, Ramesh Kumar.
Chief Enforcement Officer, Rajesh Gupta, Enforcement Officer, Kamini Kesar, Revenue Officers, Parmod Kumar, Ashwani Sudan, Parveen Gupta and Sunil Gupta of JMC & other enforcement staff of JMC also accompanied the JMC staff in the drive.
The JMC has again appealed to the shopkeepers to keep their goods within their establishments to avoid penal action against them and vendors to ply their rehries only in the rehri zones established by Jammu Municipal Corporation.