Upalokayukta initiates probe into encroachment of footpath by vendors in front of public library at Gundlupet

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Upalokayukta Justice K.N. Phaneendra.

Upalokayukta Justice K.N. Phaneendra. | Photo Credit: File photo

Upalokayukta Justice K.N. Phaneendra has initiated a suo motu enquiry into complaints of mediocre sanitary conditions, encroachment of pedestrian pathways, roadside vending and traffic-related problems successful beforehand of the nationalist room successful Gundlupet town.

The probe has been initiated aft the Upalokayukta took cognisance of a paper study that pointed retired that footpaths successful beforehand of the room had been encroached upon by assorted vendors selling accelerated food, pani puri, meat, and different items. The study besides highlighted foul odours owing to inadequate discarded absorption and inconvenience to room users owed to haphazard conveyance parking.

The suo motu enquiry ordered by the Upalokayukta nether Sections 7(2) and 9(3)(a) of the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984, noted that the issues mentioned successful the media study necessitate examination, arsenic the conditions astir the room are causing inconvenience to students, youth, and publication lovers who sojourn the facility.

Accordingly, directions person been fixed to contented notices to Saravana S., main serviceman of the Gundlupet Town Municipal Council, Vijayakumar, constabulary inspector of Gundlupet Town Police Station, and Jayaswamy, librarian of Gundlupet Public Library, treating them arsenic respondents successful the case.

The Upalokayukta has directed the authorities acrophobic to instrumentality indispensable measures to resoluteness the problems connected and astir the room premises and taxable a study connected the actions taken wrong 4 weeks. The adjacent proceeding connected the substance has been scheduled for July 13.

Published - June 11, 2026 08:40 p.m. IST

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