Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 13: Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) today intensified the ongoing drives against encroachers, illegal rehries/pharies causing traffic congestions and obstructing free movements of pedestrians on footpaths in the areas Below Gumat, Vinayak Bazar, Jewel, Gurudwara Sunder Singh Road, Hari Market upto Residency Road.
The drive was conducted on the instructions of Commissioner, JMC, Vikas Sharma under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner (R), JMC, Prem Singh, Chief Enforcement Officer, Rajesh Gupta, Revenue officers, Sunil Gupta and enforcement staff of JMC.
A handout issued by JMC said that the drive was launched in compliance to the orders of State High Court in WPPIL No. 36/2018 titled Ajay Jagotra Vs State & others.
During the drive, the enforcement team of Jammu Municipal Corporation removed encroachments and cleared the footpaths and pavements. The team seized five trucks of material like counters, wooden molding beats, illegal flexes and hoardings displayed by the shopkeepers/phari walas in front of their shops and footpaths causing traffic congestion and free flow of pedestrians. The team also lifted seven illegal rehries from Jewel area plying without permission.
The handout said the Jammu Municipal Corporation is repeatedly issuing instructions to the shopkeepers regarding removal of encroachments through public notices. In case of repeated violation by shopkeepers, JMC Will be bound to take action against the defaulters and encroachers in terms of Section 232 of the Municipal Corporation Act, 2000 which may further lead to sealing of the shops as per law. Strict instructions were also issued to the street vendors/phari walas to ply their rehries only in the rehri zones established by Jammu Municipal Corporation, the handout added.
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