Jamshedpur: Permanent shops in lieu of shanties on Dimna Road divider

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Jamshedpur, Oct 25:  West Jamshedpur constituency MLA and Jharkhand Health and Disaster Management Minister, in a step to provide concrete shop spaces to fruit and vegetable vendors doing business in temporary and fire prone shanties on the road diver along the Mango-Dimna Road, has urged them to temporarily shift to an alternate place marked for them at Munshi Mohalla so that the shops could come up. According to information, 50 such vendors would be shifted to the temporary place at Munshi Mohalla and after the concrete shops are made and allocated to them, the next 50 would be moved and the process would continue until all shops were constructed and possessions given.

According to plans announced by the Minister, there would be a wide road along the middle of the shop rows  and adequate parking space would be provided for shoppers. The vendors would have to deposit a nominal fee at the Mango Municipal Corporation against which receipts would be provided. The ownership of the shops would be given to the vendors. MMC Executive Officer Dipak Sahay was present during the Minister’s visit and inspection.

BJM up in arms against Banna’s decision

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Jamshedpur, Oct 25: BJM Ulidih Mandal President Praveen Singh strongly objected to the decision of Minister Banna Gupta to break the shops on the middle of the divider along Mango Dimna Road. Praveen Singh in a press release stated that Jharkhand’s Health Minister cum local MLA had issued an autocratic order to dismantle the shanties of the poor vendors who had been doing business along Dimna Road to eke out their livelihood. He called the Minister’s move unjustified. The press communiqué noted that the decision would add to the existing burden of woes on the poor people who were facing economic crisis after the COVID period. “The former MLA of the West Jamshedpur Assembly constituency,, Saryu Roy, protected the houses and shops of the poor for 15 years and did not allow even a single poor person to be evicted from his earning space. At present too, in areas of Jamshedpur East, Saryu Rai has always opposed the breaking of shops located in the area. Our policy is clear that first the poor should be settled and their means of livelihood should be provided, only after that action should be taken to demolish any shop. If this decision is not withdrawn, mass agitation will be launched against the Minister’s move,” he mentioned in the press release.