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| HC directs JDA to provide water, electricity, roads to Housing Colony | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 18: High court judge Tashi Rabstan today directed JDA VC and Xen to provide all basic infrastructural facilities like water, electricity and roads to Bantalab Housing Colony, Phase-1, positively within two months and file the compliance report.
He directed that the compliance report ought to be supported by necessary documents/photographs before the registrar judicial. The court directive came in a petition filed by a woman resident of the colony.
"It is very strange and shocking that the land belonged to JDA which developed it into a housing colony and then put it to auction on lease basis. It put the money in its own pocket, but when it came to providing infrastructural facilities like water, electricity and roads in the colony, it backtracked with the plea that it is the job of PHE, PDD, PWD and other departments, thus leaving the petitioner and other inhabitants to lead a miserable life. If JDA does not provide funds to these departments for providing basic infrastructural facilities in the housing colony belonging to it, how can they provide the basic amenities to the inhabitants? It seems as if the higher authorities of JDA have adopted a total negligent and lackluster approach in providing basic infrastructural facilities to the inhabitants of the colony despite the fact that they had taken huge amount by auctioning the land of the colony on lease basis without caring how the petitioner and other inhabitants of the colony would have been residing in absence of basic infrastructural facilities since 1999," the court said.
"Since the petitioner has been forced to lead a miserable life for so many years without basic infrastructural facilities right from 1999 despite taking full bid money from her, the JDA is burdened with cost of Rs 50,000 to be deposited by it in the registry of this court within two months from today," the court directed.
As per PDD, in the absence of funds, which were to be provided by JDA, the petitioner had to pay from her own pocket for laying LT extension for supply of power at her residence, which was worked out at Rs 4,653.
The court directed JDA to pay the said amount to the petitioner along with 6 pc interest with effect from February 28, 2000 till the date of its final realization. On deposit of Rs 50,000 along with Rs 4,653 with interest, the same shall be released in favour of petitioner after proper verification and identification.
"It is made clear that in case respondents to deposit the aforementioned amount or do not file the compliance report, as directed, within a period of two months from today, Registrar (Judicial) is directed to frame a separate robkar against them and list the same before the court for appropriate orders," the court directed. --(JNF) |
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