The Chairman

NEW OKHLA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Administrative Complex
Sector 6, Noida - 201301 
District. Gautam Budh Nagar
Uttar Pradesh, India

Dear Sir

I am resident of Sector 62.

When NOIDA was formed in 1976, I was 22 years  old, and was working for US Information Service, and smack behind my office was New Delhi House on Barakhamba Road where perhaps the first NOIDA office in Delhi was set up.  When I had told my father about Noida, he went looking for Noida, but could not proceed beyond Ghazipur Dairy Farm because no one seemed to know where Noida was!

30 years later, in 2005, I moved into Sector 62 of Noida.   I am happy to have moved here.  With its malls, markets, institutions, the Metro link, and flyovers and underpass, it is a good city to be in.  The residents of Noida are unpretentious,   and life is smooth.  

 

Complaints are attended too.  Once I wrote to the Director, Department of Horticulture about a certain complaint and , Noida authorities, complaining about a green belt near my residence, and was pleasantly surprised when the official of Horticulture Department who  had visited the spot to address the complaint rang me up.

There are several serious problems being faced by the residents of Sector 62 which are listed below and need your immediate attention. 

Terrible Tracffic and Noise Pollution on TOT Mall Road: Please declare this road as a Silent Zone

Running through the Sector is an arterial road, often referred to as  the TOT Mall Road.  The length of the road is hardly one kilometer.  The traffic on this road is becoming a cause of serious concern.  Every day in the morning and evening this narrow road turns into a highway of private buses, chartered buses, office cabs, auto-rickshaws,  2 wheelers, 3 wheelers, Vikrams, cars, and light commercial vehicle.  Unmindful of the discomfort they cause to the residents they cut  through the sector  billowing smoke and honking recklessly.  Some of them use the banned shrieking pressure horn not to request a passage, but as a threatening forewarning to other road users to move out of their way.  Add to that the noise from their engines and defective exhaust pipes, and the smoke they emit, and the total effect becomes unbearable.

A visit to my flat on any working day in the morning between 8.30 am to 9.30 am will convince you and show you the utter discomfort which  residents like me have to face two times a day.

Certain amount of honking may be unavoidable, but this rash and imprudent use of hooter and horn is causing discomfort and headaches to the residents.  I fail to understand why the buses need to use a pressure horn in a residential zone.  Besides depriving the citizen his right to live peacefully, this noise pollution is disturbing the sick, the elderly, and the students.  What is otherwise a peaceful and quiet neighbourhood turns into a nightmare every morning and evening. 

I therefore request the Noida Authority to take up this matter urgently and ban the use of horns in the residential zone  and declare it as Silent Zone. 

Sector 62 Post Office

The Sector 62 Post Office operates from the building of National Institute of Open Schooling, a good 2 to 3 km from the residential belt, depending upon where one lives.  Not only is it too far and inaccessible to the elderly, it has no facilities either.  The counter operates through a window in the building.  Half the staff works in the open.   A visitor has no proper place to sit and write, or even to affix the stamp.  The place looks like a makeshift temporary postoffice, and has no dignity.   

I am certain that the Noida Authoriy can build a Post Office Building in Sector 62 for the Postal Department.. 

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

It is a well known fact that Noida lies in Seismic Zone 4. (Zone 5 expects the highest level of seismicity.  Zone 4 is called the High Damage Risk Zone.) 

Sector 62 has approximately 9000 residential flats in different Group Housing Societies, and most buildings are of several storeys.  Being in Zone 4 calls for a high level of alertness and competent training of the residents and officials in Disaster Management.  I personally am unaware if any such programme has been undertaken at any level.  Through you, sir, I call upon all RWAs of Sector 62 and the various Noida officials to initiate steps on very urgent basis in this direction.  Disasters like earthquake do not send advance notices before striking.

LACK OF COMMUNITY CENTRE

We  are 9000 residential flats, but without a single community centre to organize weddings, social functions, religious get togethers. 

Would Noida authority build in Sector Sector 62 a Community Centre where, besides facilities for holding marriages and such social functions, we may also have Post Office, Railway Booking Counter, Library, Disaster Management Cell, ATMs, Police Post etc?.

SECTOR 62 PARKS

A.     Sector 62 is blessed with a big Park in the Institutional Area.  The pity is that its development work has been stopped midway by NA.   I request the Horticulture Department to resume the work and let the general public know the target date by which the Park will be completed.  Such a beautiful piece of land going waste…

B.     The Green Belt behind the TOT Mall has been cleaned, a jogging track has been laid, and benches have been placed to sit and rest.   But the smaller Green Belt between M.E.A. Apartments, C-58/29 Sector 62 and Varun Apartments, C-58/29 Sector 62 has been left undeveloped.  As a result it is gradually turning into a public urinal and lavatory, used by vagabonds, street urchins, and street hawkers. It has begun to stink, sometimes  so strongly that the stench reaches the neighbourhood flats, making it unbearable.  It may be a good idea to develop this Belt like other Green Belt has been developed.

GARBAGE DUMPING

The main avenues of the Institutional Area was once a haven for the morning walkers, with its green trees and green belts.  People would walk or jog in the fresh air on this avenue.  But in the absence of an effective garbage disposal system, section of the avenue has been turned into a garbage dumping sight.  What was a haven for the joggers and walkers now has stench in the air and filth spewed around.   People have stopped going there for a walk.  Cars  passing through the area have to close the windows.  Often one sees cows and dogs rummaging through the waste. 

Kindly ban the dumping of garbage here.  

STRAY ANIMALS

Several stray bulls and dogs have begun to live on the sector road of Sector 62.  They are a threat to the pedestrians and also a traffic hazard.  I sincerely request you to have these stray animals removed so that it becomes safe for the residents.

Yours truly

Arun Naik

A-115 M.E.A.Apartments

C-58/29 Sector 62

Noida 20101

Mobile 9891422794

 ,