Sandeep Rana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 11
A telephonic conversation purportedly between a door-to-door waste collector and a contractor has surfaced in which Rs 2,000 per rehri is being sought in the name of a councillor.
Though the authenticity of this conversation cannot be verified yet, the matter assumes significance given the fact that this is the fourth audio clip involving MC members in the recent time.
It is being verified who is circulating or making these audio clips if these are not genuine.
Councillor Vinod Aggarwal, whose name cropped up in the clip that has gone viral, denied the allegation stating that he does not know the persons heard in the audio tape. “I am in Delhi for a marriage function. I will return tomorrow to find out who are behind this,” he added.
In the phone call recording, a person claiming to be a waste collector from Subhash Nagar colony calls up a person, supposedly a contractor. The waste collector claims one Pappu has asked him to pay Rs 2,000 per month. He wanted to know what it was all about. On this, the contractor replies, “A tender (contract) for the entire Ward No. 26 has been taken and every collector with a rehri has to pay Rs 2,000 each as per local councillor Aggarwal.”
In another related audio clip circulated along with this, it is claimed that after Mani Majra, similar tender is going to be floated in Mauli Jagran.
Officially, there is no contract system for door-to-door garbage collection and collectors voluntarily take waste from each house. They have divided areas among themselves.
The audio points at a nexus thriving under the garb of influential people, who further extort money from collectors.
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