Drive launched to conduct survey of security gates in Faridabad sectors
Bijendra Ahlawat
Tribune News Service
Faridabad, August 5
The Haryana Shahri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) has launched a drive to conduct a survey of the security gates installed in the residential sectors here in an illegal manner. The body has announced to take action against such gates by ensuring their removal. This comes in the wake of the directions from the State’s Rights to Information Panel, which took up matters in response to a complaint lodged recently.
Promises action as per norms of govt
With a survey in progress, action against installation of illegal gates would be taken as per the directions of the commission and the norms of the state government. — Senior official, HSVP
Sources in the HSVP revealed that the matter of the installation of the security gates inside the HSVP sectors and colonies located on the government land had emerged problematic after the complaints raised by a section of residents in the past few years, who believed that the gates installed by the resident welfare associations (RWAs) in various pockets had come as hurdle in the movement of not only residents but also police vehicles, ambulances and fire tenders in case of emergencies. Ajay Bahl, a local resident, who raised a query with the authorities of the HSVP way back in April 2019, had lodged a complaint with the Right to Information Commission of the state claiming that the department concerned had failed not only to provide the details of the number of gates installed in the past few decades but had not also revealed whether the gates which remain closed most of the time were legal or illegal.
The information panel which heard the matter last month had asked the HSVP authorities to set up a monitoring framework at district level to review progress of action taken at least once a quarter. It has also asked the HSVP to include the complainant as part of this monitoring framework with intimation to the commission.
“The commission after hearing the submissions of complainant and perusal of record available in case file notes that the complainant has raised a very significant issue of erecting security gates in the HSVP sectors in an unauthorised manner,” said the order issued by Jyoti Arora, State Information Commissioner, last month. It adds that such gates not only pose hindrance to people but also pose threat to lives in case of emergencies by obstructing the way to hospitals.
The commission also observed that the respondent SPIO-cum-Estate officer, HSVP, Faridabad, being a member of committee, constituted for installation of security gates is responsible for controlling the construction of such gates in an unauthorised manner. “With a survey in progress, action against the installation of illegal gates would be taken as per the directions of the commission and the norms of the state government,” said a senior official of the HSVP.
