Staff should wear GPS watches: CRAWFED

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 1

The Chandigarh Residents’ Association Welfare Federation (CRAWFED) today said MC employees should wear GPS watches without any fear and should not raise unnecessary issues in this regard.

“These watches are already in use in three-four cities of India. The system is running successfully and giving desired results. So the Municipal Corporation staff of Chandigarh should also wear these watches without any fear or without raising unnecessary issues,” said Surinder Sharma, vice-chairman of CRAWFED, at its executive committee meeting held today at Gandhi Bhawan, Sector 16.

The federation slammed the MC and the administration for various issues pending for a long time. Its chairman Hitesh Puri was forced to say, “If our federation fails to work as a pressure group and our issues are not resolved, we will close it.” The meeting was attended by the representatives of RWAs.

Rajat Malhotra, general secretary, CRAWFED, urged MP Kirron Kher and Chandigarh BJP president Arun Sood for their intervention in resolving the issues facing dwellers of CHB schemes by giving them one-time general amnesty on the pattern of “Amnesty Scheme for regularisation of unauthorised construction in plotted area” launched by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 1999.

Major (retd) DP Singh, patron, CRAWFED, said vendors were selling vegetables and fruits much above the rates fixed by the Market Committee.

Hitesh Puri said he had already appealed to the Administrator and the MC Commissioner that they should not hike water tariff manifold and people did not want 24-hour water supply at such high rates.

Puri also raised the issue of shifting of garbage dump from Dadu Majra. He said thousands of people living near the dump were falling sick. He said there was no need to privatise the Chandigarh Electricity Department as it was already running in profits and residents were satisfied with the power supply.