Written by: Express News Service
2 min readPanchkulaAug 11, 2011 02:49 AM IST
First published on: Aug 11, 2011 at 02:49 AM IST
The Supreme Court,on Wednesday,in its interim order,stayed the division bench order of Punjab and Haryana High Court on quashing of notification which had elevated Panchkula Municipal Council to Corporation.
Haryana government had approached the apex court against the High Court order.
Independent councillor V K Kapoor,one of the defendants in the case,said,“With this order,Ravinder Rawal is no longer the president of the Municipal Council. The next meeting which was slated for the coming week will also be cancelled.”
B B Singhal,the defendant in the case and former vice-president of the council said,“We are losing credibility. In six months,the administration converted the council into a corporation. Then HC quashed the government’s order. Now again with the SC’s interim order,it is a corporation. In my view the way the government had converted it into corporation by attaching villages of Kalka was not in favour of Panchkula residents.”
In the HC,petitioners contended that the population of all the areas,which were considered for making of Panchkula Municipal Corporation,was below three lakhs as per the census of 2001,which was mandatory for making any Municipal Corporation. Further it was also submitted that a Municipal Corporation could not be made by merging two Municipal Councils. In this case three Municipal Councils were being merged together. It was also mentioned that for the conversion of village panchayats into Municipal Corporations they have to first be made Nagar Palikas followed by Municipal Councils.
The division bench comprising Justices M M Kumar and A N Jindal of HC had ruled that the merger could not be done in the manner as desired by the state,but now the SC had stayed that order.
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