By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 16 Oct: District Magistrate Savin Bansal today held a review meeting regarding the repair of streetlights under the jurisdiction of Dehradun Nagar Nigam. It may be recalled that, recently, the DM, who is also currently the Administrator of Nagar Nigam as there is currently no elected Municipal Board in place, had taken a serious view of the large number of faulty streetlights in the capital. He had then directed EESL the company that has been awarded the contract to supply, install and replace the faulty streetlights by the Nagar Nigam to take up its responsibility seriously. He had expressed anguish over long pendency of the complaints in this regard.
On the instructions of the DM, 1,500 new lights were purchased in a single day. The District Magistrate today issued fresh instructions to EESL officials to immediately provide 2,800 lights that had were deposited with EESL for the repair.
Bansal today gave the teams a target of repairing 400 streetlights per day and also directed the officials to personally monitor the repair work every week. He divided the city into four zones for this purpose and nominated nodal officers for each zone. He also instruced that the presence of the Sector Officer should also be recorded along with the teams while leaving the Municipal Corporation premises every day to repair the lights for the wards.
The District Magistrate also directed night patrolling teams to check whether the lights have been repaired or not and whether they are lit or not. He also directed that EESL must repair and provide at least 300 lights to Nagar Nigam teams every day and made it clear that award of further work to the company will only be considered based on the company’s performance. It was reminded during the meeting today that according to the survey, about 4,000 lights are faulty, out of which complaints have been received for 1,000. The DM instructed the Nagar Nigam teams to repair the lights by running a campaign on a war footing and assured that there will be no shortage of lights and equipment.
The DM has directed the repair teams to replace about 400 faulty lights daily. He made it clear that the company (EESL) must repair and return the faulty lights within 48 hours and make them available to the Municipal Corporation. Chief Municipal Commissioner Gaurav Kumar, Additional Municipal Commissioner Bir Singh Budhiyal, UCN Gaurav Bhasin, and Regional Manager of EESL were present at the meeting.
