People from different parts of Odisha queued up before the grievance cell of the State government which has been revived by the newly-elected BJP government after several years.
Odisha CM Mohan Majhi personally listened to the grievances of people who turned up at the venue even from remote parts of the State.
As the CM is personally hearing the grievances, people turned up in large numbers on Monday to make the government aware of their problems.
The development assumes significance as former CM Naveen Patnaik was not coming to the public grievance cell. A lot of people alleged that their grievances fell on deaf ears in the past government.
Reportedly, the new CM Mohan Majhi along with other senior officials will regularly listen to the grievances of the people. The people are also happy as they will be able to share their problems with CM Mohan Majhi and are hopeful that their grievances will be resolved.
The hearing of people’s grievances is being done at the CM’s Grievance Cell located in the Unit-V area in Bhubaneswar.
BMC, BDA Also Resume Grievance Hearing
The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Commission (BMC) also resumed grievance hearings today.
As per official sources, the public grievance hearing will be conducted every Monday (except government holidays) between 11 am and 1.30 pm.
Earlier, the grievance hearing was stopped since March 16 due to the model code of conduct for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Odisha.
Today, a lot of people approached the BMC regarding problems due to open drains, vending zones, roads and other issues.
The local residents alleged that despite repeated complaints regarding open drains and other issues, the authorities in the past only gave assurances to complete the work. But, nothing changed.
BMC Commissioner Rajesh Pravakar Patil said, “Most of the grievances that came up were localised. We will hold a meeting with senior officials and take appropriate steps. There are some land acquisition and other litigation matters for which some works are pending. We will try to resolve these issues. We have taken up some drain related works.”
According to Patil, the work for installing slabs over open drains will be completed within one and a half months. Temporary barricades have been installed at 25 different locations.
“Some slabs are getting damaged during cleaning works and we are looking at it apart from taking steps for permanent solutions. At vulnerable points, temporary barricades have been set up and pumps have been deployed for localised waterlogging issues,” Patil added.