Damu wants Eastern bypass road repaired by Monday
Threatens to carry out work with public support
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JUNE 19
Fatorda MLA Damu Naik on Saturday has called upon the authorities to repair the Eastern bypass road by Monday or threatened to carry out the work with support and contributions from the people as a mark of protest.
Briefing newsmen after a meeting with the district officials and Municipal officers held to review the development works in Fatorda constituency, Naik said water logging is the order of the day on the Eastern bypass resulting in road accidents.
“I have told the authorities to take concrete steps to rectify the situation by Monday. Or else, we will take up the work with the people as a mark of protest against the government’s inaction”, he warned.
The MLA told newsmen that the meeting discussed various issues, including encroachments on open spaces and traffic obstructions near traffic island by illegal vendors.
Saying that halls are proliferating in the nook and corner of the city, the MLA has urged the municipal officials to conduct a survey and find out the number of new halls that has come up in the city without making provision for parking arrangements. “There are instance that halls have come up on the building terraces. A survey would reveal the number of such halls”, he said, adding that the municipality and the PDA can initiate action against such arrangements.
The MLA further told the Mamlatdar to verify the names of voters, who have been registered only recently. “There are some voters whose names have been included in the electoral roll. These people have not been staying in the locality. Just verify from where the names of these people have figured in the electoral list”, he added.
Naik also expressed his unhappiness over the action initiated against encroachments on open spaces and by vendors, creating traffic hurdles.
He said the governments have been work at cross purposes in the absence of a single window system.
Margao Municipal Councillors Piedade Noronha, Narayan Fondekar, Ciriaca Rodrigues and Raju Shirodkar, Additional District Collector, Prasanna Acharya, Deputy Collector, Johnson Fernandes, Mamlatdar, Paresh Faldesai, PI Santosh Desai, Traffic PI Prabodh Shirwaikar, MMC Chief Officer Y B Tawde, PWD and other officials were present for the meeting.
