Mayor nod to over Rs1-cr works in Ph 9 market

Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 28

Mayor Amarjit Singh Sidhu has given the green light to the development works worth over Rs1 crore in the Phase 9 market.

Sidhu said not only complete red stones would be laid in the market but a railing would also be installed at the front of the entire market.

He said in the rest of the markets, the work had almost been completed but the Phase 9 market was left. The work has now started, Sidhu said, adding that no delay would be tolerated in the development works.

He also said no compromise would be made with the quality of the work.

Meanwhile, Deputy Mayor Kuljit Singh Bedi termed the decision to provide Rs10 lakh per year to the councillors for developmental works in their wards as a historic one.

Bedi said it was due to the personal intervention of Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu that about Rs34 crore had already been disbursed by the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA)to the Municipal Corporation.

The minister had asked GMADA for an additional amount of Rs50 crore for the developmental works of the Mohali Municipal Corporation, which was expected to be disbursed soon, Bedi added.