lucknow a man got stuck in a lift for around 30 minutes before being rescued by locals at lucknow development authoritys sargam apartments in the jankipuram extension area on sundaythe incident was reported within 15 days of a 34yearold man getting stuck in a lift for an hour in fact it was the fourth such incident since january at the apartmenton sunday around 1130 am toofani ram who works in a private company hired by the lucknow municipal corporation for solid waste management was coming down from the 16th floor after collecting garbage disposal charges from a resident living in block p when on the 11th floor the lift went out of order the alarm was not working and the network on his phone was also unavailable ram waited for 5 minutes hoping that it would restart on its own but when nothing happened he got nervous and started shouting for help but no one paid heedfortunately at this time the mobile caught the networki immediately called the president of the resident welfare association for help it took another 25 minutes for them to take me out later i took the stairs to reach the ground floor said toofani ramlocals blamed the lda for the negligencerishiranjan shukla resident of sargam apartment said as soon as we got information that someone got stuck in a lift we took keys but were able to rescue him after 30 minutes now the lift has been restored for operationdespite complaints to the lda which is responsible for its maintenance in the absence of a proper rwa no action has been taken the lda has given the maintenance responsibility to a private company which is not doing its job properly shukla addedmanoj sagar executive engineerelectricals lda said we have given instructions to the private company looking after lift operations to identify faults in the lift