Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 21: To ensure clean and safe Jammu city, a joint drive was conducted by special teams of Jammu Municipal Corporation and Police, here today.
The joint team was headed by Secretary JMC, Sunaina Sharma . DySP. Traffic Sunny Gupta, SDPO North Varun Jandyal, Enforcement Officer Kamini Kesar, Revenue Officers Ashwani Sudan and Sunil Gupta, SHOs of concerned police stations, Enforcement Inspectors and other field staff of JMC also accompanied the drive.
Drive was mainly focused on encroachments of footpaths, illegal hoardings, rehries/pharies. The drive was conducted in various areas of Jammu city i.e. Indira Chowk, Hari Market, Raghunath Bazar, Residency Road, Id-Gah Road etc. During the drive, the team removed 4 truck loads of material including goods displayed by the shopkeepers in front of their shops and also lifted hoardings.
The encroachers and shopkeepers of the areas were warned to keep their saleable items within their shutter line and not to encroach the footpaths which leads to congestion and obstructs free movement of pedestrians on footpath. The street vendors were also directed to ply their rehries only in the Rehri Zones established by JMC.
The shopkeepers were warned that in case of further violations, JMC shall be bound to seal their premises, in the light of directions from High Court in WPPIL No. 27/2017 titled “Court on its own motion Vs JMC”.
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