Raipur, February 03, 2011
The shopkeepers affected from municipal’s road widening works from Station chowk to Gurudwara have demanded from Chief Minister Raman Singh to rehabilitate them so that they could restart their businesses for sustenance.
In this connection, a delegation of Station chowk shopkeepers met the CM during Jandarshan programme on Thursday. They informed that the RMC evicted them from the location to widen and beautify the road in February 2009 but had not rehabilitated them elsewhere despite of their repeated requests and applications.
“We are small businessmen and we run our family on the basis of our daily income. With no permanent shops to restart our business, we are even facing problem to pay the school fees of our children,” said the shopkeepers Kirti Patel and Surendra Hanspal.
They informed that some of shopkeepers even had decided to commit suicide due to RMC’s indifference towards their demand of rehabilitation. “We also informed about problems to the public representatives and relevant officials but in vain,” they said.
“However, the CM heeded our problems carefully and has assured us to provide shops very soon. In this regard he has also given necessary instructions to the Collector,” they added.
Another shopkeeper Santosh Janghel informed that all the affected shopkeepers would stage dharna in protest of delay in their rehabilitation at 3 pm on February 15 and then submit a memorandum to the civic Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary.
The delegation that met Cm was comprised of Surendra Hanspal, Anil Agrawal, Gopal Das, Narayan Das and Ramesh Katrani.
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