Sambalpur: Soft for some and hot for others, Sambalpur Metropolitan Corporation

Sambalpur: Residents of Budharaja Bhim Bhoi are suffering during the rainy season. Taking advantage of the inaction of the SDA and the Metropolitan Corporation, the people have seized the public roads and canals and erected their own luxurious buildings and huge walls. The road has been occupied and the canal has been buried. Therefore, the rain water does not flow down to the people’s houses. When it rains, about 10/15 houses are covered with water. Santhkabi Bhim Bhoi has given the message of welfare of the world that the world will be saved if I go to hell for my life, some selfish people of the colony named after him are holding the principle of I go to hell for the world, my welfare will be saved. Who has built his own four-story building sitting on the road, burying the drain, and who has built a wall.

The people of the colony is suffering the punishment of another’s illegal activity. Because there is no way to drain the rainwater, their houses are flooded. The residents of the colony have written a complaint to the Metropolitan Corporation Commission against the confiscation of roads and canals. But the Metropolitan Corporation has no time to take action on such complaints. The Metropolitan Corporation officials, who have threatened strict action if a common man places tin on the roof of his house, remain silent in the case of people who have seized public roads and streets. Metropolis is soft for some and hot for others. The local residents have complained that the Corporation officials are far from solving the problems of the people, they have not even come to the spot to investigate the problem.

Jyotsna Viswal, president of the local Ashirbad Women’s Association, members Manisha Pradhan, Rajni Sahu, Valkuni Pandey, Aarti Das, Maury Sahu and Indu Singh warned that they will be forced to take to the streets if the metropolitan corporation does not take immediate action. The water is accumulating on the road without being drained. The concrete road has become slippery and slippery, posing a danger to senior citizens and bikers. Even if the colonists objected, they did not care. The inaction of the SDA and the Metropolitan Corporation is indirectly promoting illegal activities. People are complaining that this illegal construction was done without the permission of SDR.