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Council to decide on school, dispensary issue in next meeting

CHANDIGARH: The Administrator’s Advisory Council will take the final call on handing over the dispensaries and primary schools back to the administration from the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation in its next meeting to be held soon.

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Ramkrishan Upadhyay
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 25

The Administrator’s Advisory Council will take the final call on handing over the dispensaries and primary schools back to the administration from the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation in its next meeting to be held soon.

Sources said Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore had directed the officials to take up the issue in the next meeting of the advisory council.

While Chandigarh has expressed its intention to take back the two departments, the MC showed unwillingness to accept the demand. In a notice sent to the MC Commissioner two months ago in accordance with the power conferred under Section 403C of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, the administration said it had came to the notice that all civil dispensaries and schools transferred to the MC in 2010 were not functioning properly.

Taking a note of the complaints regarding the poor quality of the services, the Chandigarh Administration had sought performance report of the functioning of the dispensaries and schools from the Chandigarh civic body.

It was said that the functioning of essential services was suffering due to acute shortage of resources at the MC level. Around 20 primary health centres and seven primary schools were assigned to the MC in September 2010.

The expenditure on staff salaries and supplying of medicines and other consumables to these dispensaries is being borne by the Department of Health and Family Welfare. The poor functioning of the primary health system has been raised several times in the MC general House meetings, but nothing has been done to improve the condition.

The UT has initiated the move after the civic body started facing financial crunch. Sources in the administration said the Administrator desired to take the decision with the consultation of the members of the advisory council reconstituted recently.

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  • In a notice sent to the MC Commissioner two months ago in accordance with the power conferred under Section 403C of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, the administration said it had came to the notice that all civil dispensaries and schools transferred to the MC in 2010 were not functioning properly. 
  • Taking a note of the complaints regarding the poor quality of the services, the Chandigarh Administration had sought performance report of the functioning of the dispensaries and schools from the Chandigarh civic body.
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