PATNA: The Patna High Court on Tuesday directed the social welfare department to submit report within six weeks about action taken to provide basic facilities and adequate infrastructure at all the aftercare and remand homes in the state.
Passing the order on a PIL of a lawyer, K M Joseph, a division bench,Âcomprising Chief justice Rekha Manharlal Doshit and Justice S K Katriar, observed that the court did not need to make any specific directive to the department to do its own work of providing basic facilities and adequate infrastructure at all the homes. The court directed the department to run properly all the homes.
Joseph submitted that the aftercare homes for women and remand homes for children lacked infrastructure and basic facilities and they were left uncared by the state government.
Directive on roads: The same bench on Tuesday directed the district magistrate, Vaishali, to file reply to a PIL alleging irregularities in the works done for construction of roads and government buildings under Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana at Hajipur and adjoining areas.
The order was passed on a PIL of Devanand Singh charging irregularities in the implementation of the Yojana in Vaishali district.
College building: The same bench on Monday directed the building construction department to apprise the court of the time it would take to construct building of Government Women’s College, Gulzarbagh, on 2.6 acres land to be handed over to it by the road construction department.
Petitioner’s counsel Brajesh Kumar submitted that the road construction department had under its possession five-acre plot which was given to the college by the department of revenue and land reforms in 1990. On the other hand, the Government Women’s College, Gulzarbagh, was being run with difficulty on the premises of BNR Training College, Gulzarbagh.
He submitted that the road construction department was running hotmix plant on the land given to the college. Brajesh submitted that in March this year, the chief secretary had chaired a meeting for giving actual possession of this land to the college but to no avail.
Additional advocate general Lalit Kishore submitted that the road construction department will soon hand over 2.6 acre of the land to the college and the rest 2.4 acres later.