PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Feb 7: The basement parking of the Ranchi Collectorate office has been converted into a pond in absence of a proper drainage system. Along with that, the parking system has to suffer in absence of a proper lighting system.
Moreover, as many as 25 vehicles of the district administration have been lying in the parking lot which has become trash.
The G+5 building at Kutchery Chowk, built-in 2009, is divided into two blocks. Each boasts eight elevators, but of the total 16, at least 12 are out of order.
Nazarat Deputy Collector Keval Krishna Aggarwal, responsible for the upkeep of the collectorate, said they were planning to auction five vehicles of the district administration for which the paperwork have started.
“The details of the five vehicles parked in the parking lot are being taken out by the DTO which will be auctioned. The rest of the vehicles are of various other departments which are to be auctioned by the concerned department itself,” Aggarwal said.
On the issue of water getting blocked in the parking lot, he said that letters have been sent to the Building Construction department for the maintenance of the building.
“The lighting system is available in the basement parking but it has to be maintained, but due to the filling of the basement with water, it becomes dangerous to provide the lighting system there,” Aggarwal said.
Building Construction department secretary Sunil Kumar said, “In case a letter has been written to the department then action will be taken and the maintenance will be done as soon as possible.”
“I have to search for my vehicle with the help of a torch in the absence of a lighting system. Moreover, they charge Rs 10 for parking a two-wheeler but are unable to provide any kind of service in lieu of the money charged,” Manoj Kumar, a resident of Harmu said.
Built primarily for disaster mitigation, the district’s largest public office currently hosts chambers of the deputy commissioner, deputy collectors, SDO, SSP and SP, besides the records rooms, foreign cell and Pragya Kendra. It has a workforce of 700 and witnesses a daily visitor footfall of 2,000.
