MC panel favours privatisation move

The MC Finance and Contracts Committee also decided to award contracts for picking up of carcasses from Chandigarh and Manimajra to private parties who had earlier put in their proposals. The MC had earlier delayed the award of contracts since the response to tenders was not lucrative enough and rates quoted were below the MC8217;s expectations.

The proposals passed in today8217;s Finance and Contracts Committee meet would now be put before the 29-member House of the Municipal Corporation, before the decisions are finally implemented.The MC was, at present, spending a total of about Rs 3.63 lakh per month on the salary of atleast 75 safai karamcharis and four supervisors employed for cleanliness of Sector 17, which excludes the expenses on the material used for cleanliness.

The Committee, meanwhile, also approved a proposal to provide a wrist watch to each of the sanitary employees of the Corporation, which would lead to an expense of about Rs 10 lakh.