HC bans illegal constructions in Zirakpur

Taking strong exception to this,the High Court put breaks on any further sanctions to unauthorised colonies in Zirakpur. Last year,the Zirakpur Municipal Corporation claimed that all possible steps have been taken to ensure that there is no more water logging in Zirakpur. The claim was made in pursuant to a petition filed by a widow whose husband had died of electrocution after water had entered her house,owing to heavy rainfall in 2009. The Zirakpur MC had also claimed,last year,that after steps taken by the MC,in 2010,no complaints of water logging have been received. Its claims were belied when on July 23 after heavy rainfall water yet again entered the houses of several residents of Vikas Nagar.

The High Court had taken suo motu notice on the basis of a news item which had highlighted that a man was electrocuted in a bid to save his inverter from rainwater entering his house due to the non-effective sewage system. The Court had observed that there appears to be a situation of chaos and danger to the health of residents of Zirakpur,which is known as the gateway to the capital of Punjab and Haryana.