To start with the drive, the lawyers have collected Rs 20,000 as voluntary donations. Ghumman talking to Newsline said, “The garbage has been cleared from the site. In fact, lawyers were the ones who were throwing garbage at this site and now they have got the area cleared. A group of 50 like-minded lawyers will be contributing between Rs 50 to 100 per month to maintain the green belt.”

As per the DBA President, five lawyers have been delegated the responsibility. They are Kewalpreet Singh, Gagan Arora, Gurpreet Singh, Harmohinder Singh and Deepjot Singh.

New saplings and grass will be planted soon. As per the information, this area was a green belt but only on papers. The area has never been developed by the government, hence was being used as a garbage dump. Ghumman said, "Now, when the government is not doing anything to develop this area, we have decided to take an initiative. This will give clean and green surroundings to lawyers and visitors. It will no longer be an eye sore."

Elderly, housewives invited to be part of PMCs

A meeting of Park Management Committees (PMCs) was held at Guru Nanak Stadium here today.

It was decided at the meeting that irrespective of problems being faced by various park management committees, all new applicants would be given contracts by February 29. The next meeting is scheduled to be held on March 7.

Chief Parliamentary Secretary Harish Rai Dhanda extended an open invitation to housewives and senior citizens to actively take part in the management of the city parks. He also said no PMC will be allotted area more than 5,000 square yard as the focus will be on quality.

The details from the Horticulture wing revealed that 18 PMCs are maintaining about 34 parks in the city. Two sub-divisional officers have been appointed to inspect the parks before handing over to the PMCs, which is inspected regularly. The MC has received nearly 100 applications for the maintenance of parks.