NURMAHAL
Nurmahal area residents have approached the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to take immediate action to complete the construction of the Nurmahal police station building highlighting the prolonged delay in finishing the police station’s construction.
Dilbag Singh, a social activist, and a resident of Baina Pur village has sent a
epresentation to the CM which said in the year 2006 police station Nurmahal
was in a private building.
The police station has been operating out of a private building since 2006. In
response, the local community took the initiative to donate six kanals and 18
marlas of land from the village for the police station. Additionally, they
contributed Rs 25 lakhs towards the construction of the building. Despite these efforts, the project has remained incomplete due to bureaucratic delays, primarily the inability to transfer the land title to the police department.
The six kanals and 14 marlas of land have been legally mutated in the name of
common owners. However, the police department has yet to finalize the land transfer, hindering the completion of the police station.
In 2012, the Nurmahal Nagar Council passed a unanimous resolution to transfer the land to the police department for this purpose. Yet, the resolution was rejected by the Director of Local Government, and no further action was taken by successive state governments under Chief Ministers P.S. Badal, Captain Amarinder Singh, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Charanjit Singh Channi and Bhagwant Mann.
A local social worker filed a writ petition in the high court in 2012 demanding that the authorities concerned be asked to issue notification under sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, to acquire the land. The then acting chief justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain dismissed the petition.
The delay has left the police station in need of essential infrastructure, including barracks for officers, boundary walls, flooring, and parking spaces for impounded vehicles. Residents have made repeated requests to the government to approve the land transfer and allow the completion of the building, but these calls have so far gone unanswered.
This situation calls for urgent government intervention to ensure that the necessary steps are taken for the timely completion of the Nurmahal Police Station, a crucial infrastructure for the local community.