Month on, transferred HUDA sectors lack cleanliness

Ishrat S Banwait

tribune News Service

Panchkula, January 15

More than a month after the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) transferred Sectors 20, 21, 25 and 26 to the Panchkula Municipal Corporation, cleanliness has become a major issue. After HUDA withdrew its sanitation workers from streets and parks, the MC has failed to deploys its own for the purpose. The MC is already facing a major staff crunch with 26 per cent slots of sanitation worker lying vacant.

After the sectors were transferred, the MC refused to take any sanitation worker from HUDA. However, it took the supervision staff. The civic body had said it would outsource the work, which is yet to be done.

For the door-to-door collection of garbage, most residents have employed private contractors who charge Rs 100 from every house. They collect garbage 15 to 20 days a month and dump it at a ground in Sector 23. Even the Swachh Survekshan could not help the residents. Residents inform that the issue was raised during a meeting at the DC’s office before the survekshan but nothing has been done about it.

HUDA had offered to transfer almost 300 employees to the MC for the sectors but the MC refused.

It took only the supervision staff like junior engineers and the fund crunch was said to be the reason for this.