Srinagar, July 7: Commissioner, Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Dr GN Qasba on Saturday toured various City areas including Shaher-e-Khaas, Nishat, Shalimar, Harwan, and south City areas of Jawahir Nagar, Raj Bagh BarbarShah, to take stock of sanitation and traffic signals, an official handout said.
 While touring in the old City, he directed the concerned officials to install more streetlights on priority bases wherever required even as he sought improvement in sanitation.
 “Meanwhile Dr Qasba convened a meeting with Municipal Officers to review user charges and tax collection and directed concerned officials to speed up in meeting the required target of user charges from different wards in the City,” the handout said.
 “While quoting example of Dal ward where the concerned Municipal official has made 175 Prosecutions for throwing garbage and polluting water bodies, Dr Qasba instructed the officials to go for Challans permissible under Municipal Act if any such violation takes place in the City,” it added.
 While emphasizing on slum development under Rajiv Avas Yojna(RAY), Dr Qasba directed all the ward officers to identify slums in all the municipal wards of the City.

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