The Deputy Director Local Government (DDLG) Darbara Singh on Tuesday took the stock of the pace and progress in the work of ongoing developmental projects in various towns of the four districts and also reviewed the functioning of the Municipal Councils.
Presiding over a meeting at Circuit House, Singh said that the work of replacing street lights with LED lights has been completed in four Municipal Councils and directed other remaining councils and panchayats to ensure early completion.
Deputy Director further added that the sterilization of stray dogs’ is running only in the Jalandhar region and 5902 dogs in 16 towns have already been sterilized. He also issued directions to the concerned councils to complete the project in their areas as soon as possible.
He also assessed the program of disbursing loans to the street vendors and directed the councils to ensure all applications of the street vendors can be made online in the next three-days.
Darbara Singh also informed that towns of Jalandhar region have already been declared open defecation free. He also took the stock of the recovery of property tax, building fees, water supply, and sewage bills, and others.