Triveni Company demands Rs 10 cr to begin work

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, August 18

Triveni Company officials demanded Rs 10 crore from the Municipal Corporation Bathinda (MCB) to start the work on the 100 per cent sewerage and water supply project.

A meeting was held today between the officials of the Noida-based Triveni Company and the MCB over the 100 per cent sewerage and water supply project in the MCB office.

Three official of the company Rajiv Puri, G Shrinivasan and P Majumdar held a meeting with Mayor Balwant Rai Nath, Senior Deputy Mayor Tarsem Goyal, Deputy Mayor Gurinderpal Kaur Mangat and Commissioner Dalwinderjit Singh. Even the XEN and other MCB officials were also present in the meeting.

In the meeting, the company demanded that the MCB should pay them Rs 10 crore. After the discussion, officials of the MCB agreed that they would give them cheque of Rs 10 crore on August 25 after the general house meeting which is scheduled to be held on August 21.

The MCB officials argued with company officials that after the payment of the Rs 10 crore, they should start the working of the project on September 2. Commissioner of the MCB, Dalwinderjit Singh, also warned that they would not tolerate even if the work is delayed by even one day.

In the meeting, it was discussed that Triveni Company will given the MCB a map of their work and even JE rank officials of the MCB would be attached with company officials at the site of the work to keep a tab on the working of the company.

In the first phase, the company would lay the sewerage pipes on the Goniana Road. As soon as the work of widening the road starts, the sewerage pipes would be laid.

In second phase, the company would lay the sewerage at Bangi Nagar, where Mayor Balwant Rai Nath’s residence is situated and Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar, which is the ward of the Mayor.

He instructed the company officials to bring the new machines to clean the sewerage in the city.

It is pertinent to mention that Rs 231 crore tender will put burden of Rs 495 crore on the MCB. In the DNIT, the cost of this project is Rs 185 crore. In which 14.99 per cent excess rate have been given which has taken the project cost to Rs 211 crore. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal while laying the foundation stone of the project had claimed that Rs 211-crore project would solve all problems of the residents in the city, but now Rs 20 crore more have been added into the cost of the project in the detailed project report.