Cuttack, June 25: The other day, Mission Road resident Rajkishore Panda encountered both visual and air pollution when he came out of his house in the morning.

A heap of garbage was dumped on roadside just outside Panda's house, and the stink emanating from it crept through the entire area - courtesy of the unauthorised functioning of a private kalyan mandap in the locality.

Such miseries, imposed upon residents like Panda by the kalyan mandaps, are, however, set to over as the Cuttack Municipal Corporation has started issuing notices to mandap operators to furnish details, including their building approval plans, and asked them to obtain permission for operating such public utilities.

"The private mandaps operating in the city were openly violating norms by disposing of solid waste on the road after each function. We hope that things will be streamlined to a great extent by the new regulatory mechanism," said Panda.

The move is aimed to review the safety aspect and streamline the registration and licensing policy.

The city has over 100 private kalyan mandaps, and most of them do not have licence or requisite permission from the civic body for holding social events, including marriages and other functions.

Sources said a few kalyan mandaps were also operating from residential plots to avoid payment of holding tax as commercial centre to the civic body.

Notably, only three mandaps had sought licence and were approved by the civic body in 2014-15 financial year, while no such owner has so far applied for the licence this year. Besides, not a single mandap has a proper solid waste disposal system and mostly tend to dump garbage on roadside.

Besides, most of the mandaps do not have adequate parking provision, creating public inconvenience due to traffic congestion on roads in case of any social event.

"We have already served notices to over 60 kalyan mandaps, asking them to furnish details of their building approval plan, the total area on which the utility has been set up, area earmarked for parking and solid waste management system," said civic body commissioner Gyana Das.

A corporation official said a high-level committee had been formed to check such parameters essential for running a kalyan mandap in the corporation limits. Planning board member of the Cuttack Development Authority, assistant commissioner of police (traffic), city health officer and holding tax officer are members of the committee. Besides, a single-window system has been made operational to facilitate easy registration of the mandaps.

The notices will be served to all the kalyan mandaps by July first week, and the committee will take action against those, who will not comply with such order.

The civic body has decided to grant seven days to the owners to comply with the notices. The panel will examine the documents, infrastructure and take steps for issuing licence for operation.

"We will request the deputy commissioner of police for taking appropriate measures, including for closure of the mandaps that will not have approvals from the development authority and adequate parking provision," Das said.