ABHAI RAJ SINGH Vs. NAGAR MAHAPALIKA ALLAHABAD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE proceedings today are as a result of the order of 7 August 1990, when this court found that certain schemes to be executed by the local administration regarding civic amenities are being bogged down as a result of incoordination as the bureaucracy who have to execute the schemes cannot come together on one common table THE schemes are municipal but the execution is, it appears not being municipalised. A long span of a void in local self-government in this State lost the synchronization between citizens who forgot their civic rights (obligations included) and the officials who are slow to abdicate the style of raj as if local administration had better be without citizens' participation.

(2.) TWO aspects which were engaging the attention of the court are municipal water supply (drinking water) and its production, supply and distribution and encroachment by hawkers or veniors which has resulted in virtually choking Kamla Nehru Road running near the Lakshmi Talkies, Katra crossing where a vegetable market has sprung up, on the road itself.

(3.) THE subject matter of two writ petitions were activities on the road as a common subject, but thereafter, for solution the similarity ceases in the two writ petitions.