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Ashraya Colony residents seek better facilities

Special Correspondent

The stir was withdrawn after corporation commissioner promised to take steps to provide basic amenities in the locality

GULBARGA: Residents of the Ashraya Colony at Sheikh Roza here on Tuesday staged a "rasta roko" on the ring road under the leadership of the district unit of the Communist Party of India demanding basic amenities, including supply of drinking water to their locality.

The blockade, which disrupted movement of vehicular traffic on the busy ring road connecting Aland road and Humnabad road, was led by district secretary of the CPI Shoukat Ali Alur and All India Kisan Sabha secretary Moula Mulla.

Braving the scorching sun, the residents of the colony, including a large number of women, squatted on the road and shouted slogans against the Gulbarga City Corporation for not providing basic amenities in their locality.

The residents withdrew their stir after Commissioner of the Gulbarga City Corporation S.P. Mudhol visited the spot and assured them that steps would be taken to provide basic amenities in the locality and the drinking water crisis in the colony would be attended to immediately by supplying water through tankers.

The residents, in a memorandum submitted to Mr. Mudhol, urged the corporation to take steps to sink borewells in the colony to ease the drinking water crisis. The Commissioner agreed to the demand and said orders would be issued to drill borewells in the colony immediately. On the demand for streetlights and power connections to houses, he said he would look into the matter and initiate action.

The residents warned the corporation official that they would be forced to launch an indefinite hunger strike before the city corporation if their demands are not conceded immediately.

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