Hit by charges of corruption, MC braces for stormy meet

With the Opposition councillors busy preparing strategies to attack the ruling BJP over the poor state of city roads, alleged corruption in the enforcement wing and financial woes, the Municipal Corporation (MC) General House meeting scheduled for August 26 is likely to be a stormy affair.

Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillors held separate pre-House meetings today to discuss issues on which they can corner the ruling party.

The BJP councillors also held a meeting to chalk out a plan to counter the Opposition.

The AAP unit president, Vijaypal Singh, said all party councillors will raise the issue of alleged corruption in the civic body. “Every day, new corruption charges are emerging,” he said, taking note of an enforcement wing employee’s recent video “exposing a systematic extortion racket” in the department.

“A massive scam also took place in the community centre bookings under the guise of free weddings for EWS families,” Singh added.

City Congress president HS Lucky said the party councillors had decided to raise the issue of city roads being in a deplorable condition. They will also raise the problem of waterlogging in the House meeting.

In this backdrop, the agenda to transfer of all V3 (sector-dividing) roads to the UT Administration’s Engineering Department for upkeep could turn into a major talking point. The civic body has faced mounting criticism for failing to maintain the roads, which have deteriorated further since the onset of the monsoon season.

Mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla decided to again bring the agenda before the House after it was unanimously rejected in an earlier House meeting. She maintained that the aim was to ensure welfare of the residents.

The agenda for the recommendation of the committee for GIS-based mechanised and manual sweeping of southern sectors (Sectors 31-56, 61 and 63) except Behlana will also be placed before the House.

Other agendas set to be tabled include the conversion of the free parking area at Hallomajra and Ram Darbar and behind Fun Republic, Manimajra, into paid parking facilities for tourist buses, the proposal to assign operation and maintenance of C&D Waste Management Facility for five years and the selection of Indian Oil Corporation Limited as the agency setting up a segregated organic municipal solid waste based compressed biogas plant.

on the table

Approval to the adoption of stringent Haryana Fire and Emergency Services Act

Single parking pass for all paid parking lots under MC

Auction of five plots at Pocket No.6 of Manimajra