Citizens pour out civic woes during MLC Joshi's Jan Samvad
Key issues raised during the programme included frequent waterlogging due to elevated cement roads, poor sanitation, and irregular road sweeping. The residents also pointed out problems of hooliganism, intoxicated individuals loitering near residential areas, and disturbances caused by a cloud kitchen operating beyond permissible hours.
Traffic concerns were prominent, so were complaints about morning bike racing, rising accidents, and lack of pedestrian space at Laxmi Nagar Square.
Citizens also sought replacing outdated traffic signals with newly installed AI-driven ones to streamline heavy commuter flow.
During the Jan Samvad, water supply woes and malfunctioning of Orange City Water (OCW) mobile app for the last six months and also Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) digital services being defunct were highlighted by the residents.
Responding to the concerns, Joshi said the complaints about rising hooliganism were a 'societal decay', which couldn't be solved easily. He promised to look into the complaints regarding NMC and OCW apps. He also assured to work on traffic-related and sanitation issues and urged citizens to collaborate in solving civic challenges.
BJP leaders Vinod Shinde, Gajanan Nishitkar were also present at the event.
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