The municipal corporation, which uprooted small lawns and gardens that people had developed outside their houses in Kitchlu Nagar, has rubbed residents the wrong way. They complain that the authorities have removed the small green patches in the name of widening roads but have done nothing about the electricity poles that are in the middle of roads and come in the way of smooth traffic flow.
MC officials had started extending roads in various blocks of the area around one month ago and started laying interlocking tiles that destroyed the gardens that residents had developed over the years. Residents say the officials should have removed the electricity poles first.
Superintending engineer of electricity wing, MC, S P Singh said, "We are removing poles creating hurdles in smooth flow of traffic and poles in Kitchlu Nagar would also be removed as soon as possible.''
However, residents whose years of hardwork has been covered with tiles are not pacified by the assurance. Homemaker Veena Aggarwal, a resident of B-block said, "Each household had developed small kitchen gardens where they were growing onions and seasonal vegetables but MC officials uprooted all of it in the name of widening the road. I somehow managed to convince them to spare a jamun tree outside my house. But if the electricity poles are not removed there would be no use of extending the roads because vehicles will not be able to pass.''
Though businessman D P S Chadha of C block appreciated the effort to make roads broad because of the number of vehicles, he rued that the officials could have planned things better. "The poles would create problems in smooth flow of traffic. If small gardens were creating problems then these big poles are doing the same,'' he said.
Tuzy Puri, who is also a resident of the area, said, "It is the carelessness of civic authorities that they don't plan before implementing things in residential areas. The poles should have had been removed first.''
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