Jodhpur High Court has stayed the work being done at Vibhuti Park on Fatehsagar Paal.

Court has directed the UMC and UIT to approach the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee to visit the site and give their report on  the feasibility of construction across Vibhuti Park on the Paal.  This is subsequent to the ongoing work of constructing of heavy Statue pedestals across the Paal, which was being done without NOC or any other paper work.

UMC Commissioner Siddharth Sihag and UIT Secretary Ramniwas Mehta were present at the hearing on Friday, in which directions were given to assign the task to Roorkee and await NOC and further orders before work is commenced.

Sihag informed the court that the drawing and designs have already been sent to the Department of Water Resources for their review and decision.  He also informed that a committee has been formed at the UMC to look after this development.

How Focus shifted to Vibhuti Park

Subsequent to a visit by Retired Chief Engineer of the Irrigation Department Ajay Garg to the Vibhuti Park, there were personal allegations made by Garg on Retired SE JP Soni.  Post these allegations, Soni wrote a letter to UMC SE Arun Vyas and expressed his views on the allegations made by Garg.  Soni wrote that though Garg was continuously passing allegations on himself, but Vyas, as the current member of the UMC, did not intervene in the argument.  This matter reached the office of Gulab Chand Kataria, who instructed the department to look into the matter.

Source: Dainik Bhaskar, Udaipur