RMC yet to give payment over Rs 35 crore to contractors
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The development works in all the 70 wards have been crippled as more than sixty percent contractors have refused to continue the projects they have obtained through tender process because they have still not received their earlier payment which is more than Rs 35 crore. The corporators, too, are feeling embarrassed due to lack of development works in their areas and say that the RMC administration should quickly release the payment of the contractors.
The delay in payment has deeply affected the financial conditions of the small contractors. The president of RMC Contractors’ Association Manish Agrawal informed that their voice remain unheard in spite of repeated reminders to the municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary about the payment.
“Whenever we met Choudhary, he said the RMC administration was trying to get fund from the government. But he never gave us any assurance,” Agrawal said.
According to information, the municipal’s establishment cost has increased, but not the income owing to which it is facing fund crisis. Recently, the Mayor too had demanded Rs 100 crore from Chief Minister Raman Singh and had informed that the municipal’s development works had been severely affected due to lack of funds.
The corporators express their concern that if the RMC would fail to carry out road and drain construction as well as repairing works then people would have to face more problems in the coming rainy season.
The corporators have already sent proposals of such works, but the RMC administration has not commenced any project so far. The corporators also met Choudhary who again expressed his inability to do anything without fund in the kitty.
RMC pays homage to Rajiv Gandhi
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The RMC paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the occasion of his 19th death anniversary by garlanding his statue at Fire Brigade chowk on Friday. The programme was attended by Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, PCC President Dhanendra Sahu, PCC Working President Satyanarayan Sharma, Raipur (North) legislator Kuldeep Juneja, members of Mayor-in-Council (MiC), corporator Pramod Dubey and several Congress workers.
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The development works in all the 70 wards have been crippled as more than sixty percent contractors have refused to continue the projects they have obtained through tender process because they have still not received their earlier payment which is more than Rs 35 crore. The corporators, too, are feeling embarrassed due to lack of development works in their areas and say that the RMC administration should quickly release the payment of the contractors.
The delay in payment has deeply affected the financial conditions of the small contractors. The president of RMC Contractors’ Association Manish Agrawal informed that their voice remain unheard in spite of repeated reminders to the municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary about the payment.
“Whenever we met Choudhary, he said the RMC administration was trying to get fund from the government. But he never gave us any assurance,” Agrawal said.
According to information, the municipal’s establishment cost has increased, but not the income owing to which it is facing fund crisis. Recently, the Mayor too had demanded Rs 100 crore from Chief Minister Raman Singh and had informed that the municipal’s development works had been severely affected due to lack of funds.
The corporators express their concern that if the RMC would fail to carry out road and drain construction as well as repairing works then people would have to face more problems in the coming rainy season.
The corporators have already sent proposals of such works, but the RMC administration has not commenced any project so far. The corporators also met Choudhary who again expressed his inability to do anything without fund in the kitty.
RMC pays homage to Rajiv Gandhi
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The RMC paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the occasion of his 19th death anniversary by garlanding his statue at Fire Brigade chowk on Friday. The programme was attended by Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava, PCC President Dhanendra Sahu, PCC Working President Satyanarayan Sharma, Raipur (North) legislator Kuldeep Juneja, members of Mayor-in-Council (MiC), corporator Pramod Dubey and several Congress workers.
Bhoomipujan of new pipeline works
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The RMC’s PHE department commenced laying of new water pipeline in Class IV Housing Board Cooperative Colony at Geetanjali Nagar on Friday. Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava performed the bhoomipujan of the pipeline works in presence of local corporator Bindu Maheshwari. Shrivastava informed that about seventy families of the area would get benefited by the new pipeline.
RMC takes out huge garbage
Raipur, May 21, 2010
Continuing its nullah cleaning drive, the municipal took out about seven dumper garbage from nullahs in different places on Friday. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and the RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary inspected the cleaning process separately.
Tanker contractors disrupt water supply for 3 hours
At Nalghar chowk with demand from RMC to release their remaining payment
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The municipal’s tanker contractors disrupted water supply to the wards through tankers for about three hours on Friday morning demanding quick release of their remaining payment. The contractors stopped all the tankers at water filling point at Nalghar chowk and declared that their tanker would not ply unless they receive their due payments. Eventually, the municipal had to buckle down before the pressure of the contractors and it promptly disbursed their payments through cheques.
Notably, there are eight registered tanker contractors in the RMC. Presently, these contractors are plying 158 tankers in all the seventy wards of the city. However, they have not received their due payments for the past two years. In this connection, they had recently met Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak who in turn had directed the RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary and Deputy Commissioner (Finance) KK Dubey to quickly solve the issue, but nothing happened in their favour.
Irked by the municipal administration’s apathy, the contractors gathered at Nalghar chowk on Friday morning and did not allow any tanker to supply water. They also reached the Nayak’s residence besides Nalghar and conveyed her that the water supply through tankers would not resume unless their demand of payment disbursal gets fulfilled. Nayak immediately called the Commissioner Choudhary and the Deputy Commissioner Dubey and instructed them to release the due payments of the contractors to avoid any public protest in case of delayed or no water supply. Choudhary immediately issued cheques of Rs 1.02 crore that were handed to the contractors by Dubey who requested them to stop their protest.
The contractors informed that the RMC had released fifty percent of their due payment in March 2010. To ensure proper water management, the municipal had earlier sent a proposal to the Urban Administration and Development Minister Rajesh Munat seeking sanctioning of Rs 5.10 crore but only Rs three crore was released.
The contractors said the their due payment was supposed to be released through the fund provided by the Urban Administration and Development department but the RMC put that amount in the general fund. “It is strange that the municipal did not utilise the fund in water management purpose, but kept it for other works owing to which our payments had been delayed,” the contractors said.
In the beginning of the summer, the RMC had anticipated that about 70-75 tankers would be sufficient to cater the capital’s water-hit areas, but with rising mercury, it had to double the figure that too is said to be inadequate.
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The RMC’s PHE department commenced laying of new water pipeline in Class IV Housing Board Cooperative Colony at Geetanjali Nagar on Friday. Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava performed the bhoomipujan of the pipeline works in presence of local corporator Bindu Maheshwari. Shrivastava informed that about seventy families of the area would get benefited by the new pipeline.
RMC takes out huge garbage
Raipur, May 21, 2010
Continuing its nullah cleaning drive, the municipal took out about seven dumper garbage from nullahs in different places on Friday. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and the RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary inspected the cleaning process separately.
Tanker contractors disrupt water supply for 3 hours
At Nalghar chowk with demand from RMC to release their remaining payment
Raipur, May 21, 2010
The municipal’s tanker contractors disrupted water supply to the wards through tankers for about three hours on Friday morning demanding quick release of their remaining payment. The contractors stopped all the tankers at water filling point at Nalghar chowk and declared that their tanker would not ply unless they receive their due payments. Eventually, the municipal had to buckle down before the pressure of the contractors and it promptly disbursed their payments through cheques.
Notably, there are eight registered tanker contractors in the RMC. Presently, these contractors are plying 158 tankers in all the seventy wards of the city. However, they have not received their due payments for the past two years. In this connection, they had recently met Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak who in turn had directed the RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary and Deputy Commissioner (Finance) KK Dubey to quickly solve the issue, but nothing happened in their favour.
Irked by the municipal administration’s apathy, the contractors gathered at Nalghar chowk on Friday morning and did not allow any tanker to supply water. They also reached the Nayak’s residence besides Nalghar and conveyed her that the water supply through tankers would not resume unless their demand of payment disbursal gets fulfilled. Nayak immediately called the Commissioner Choudhary and the Deputy Commissioner Dubey and instructed them to release the due payments of the contractors to avoid any public protest in case of delayed or no water supply. Choudhary immediately issued cheques of Rs 1.02 crore that were handed to the contractors by Dubey who requested them to stop their protest.
The contractors informed that the RMC had released fifty percent of their due payment in March 2010. To ensure proper water management, the municipal had earlier sent a proposal to the Urban Administration and Development Minister Rajesh Munat seeking sanctioning of Rs 5.10 crore but only Rs three crore was released.
The contractors said the their due payment was supposed to be released through the fund provided by the Urban Administration and Development department but the RMC put that amount in the general fund. “It is strange that the municipal did not utilise the fund in water management purpose, but kept it for other works owing to which our payments had been delayed,” the contractors said.
In the beginning of the summer, the RMC had anticipated that about 70-75 tankers would be sufficient to cater the capital’s water-hit areas, but with rising mercury, it had to double the figure that too is said to be inadequate.
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