NURMAHAL
Residents have served a notice for the demand of justice on the Punjab chief secretary, the additional chief secretary, home affairs and justice, and the principal secretary of local government for taking 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 the notice, which said that in the year 2006 police station in Nurmahal was in a private building.
The notice sent by social activist Dilbag Singh, a resident of Baina Pur village, sheds light on the issue. 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.
Dilbag Singh said 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.
Residents said land transfer should be completed as soon as possible, within three months, otherwise they would file a case in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against them.