F&CC okays 125 proposals

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, February 3

The Municipal Corporation’s Finance and Contract Committee on Wednesday given nod to around 125 proposals of various development and other works. In the meeting, headed by Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu and MC Commissioner Pardeep Kumar Sabharwal, the panel has approved various proposals.

Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu said they gave nod to purchase 16 biometric face recognition machines for attendance of employees and officials at MC offices.

The proposals

The F&CC has given nod for holding an e-auction for parking lots of the Model Town Extension market. Works related to installation of new tube wells in place of failed ones, interlocking tiles, construction and carpeting of roads, formation of new park management committees, cleaning of sewer lines with super suction machines and recruitment of safai sewaks on a contractual basis, besides others, have also been approved by the panel.

“At present, biometric fingerprint scan machines are not being used due to the Covid-19 pandemic at MC offices. With the biometric face detection machines, the employees would be able to mark their attendance,” he said.

Proposed water supply project yet to take off

A number of proposals were placed before the panel regarding the installation of new tube wells in place of “defunct” tube wells. The MC spends crores of rupees on the tube wells every year but its proposed project of 24x7 canal-based water supply project has not been started so far.

The panel has also given nod for holding an e-auction for parking lots of the Model Town Extension market. The reserve price for the lots would be around Rs 28 lakh. Notably, the MC had earlier re-auctioned the multi-storey parking lots near Mata Rani Chowk, BRS Nagar, Feroze Gandhi Market, Bhadaur House and Sarabha Nagar I Block.

Besides, a proposal was also approved for purchasing a static shredder for pruning of trees.

Senior Deputy Mayor Sham Sundar Malhotra said most of the files were related to estimates for different development works.

He said they also conducted a discussion on the solid waste management during the meeting.