Chandigarh: User cost lowered for rubbish assortment, home requested for brand new tender for cleansing

The General House of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation on Monday lowered the person expenses for waste assortment proposed within the agenda at nominal charges. It additionally determined to not pursue the Lions Company’s contract for mechanized sweeping and referred to as for contemporary tenders.

The mounted person payment charges are:

• 50 per kitchen monthly for homes as much as 50 sq. yards, which is as much as 2 marla, and for two marla to 10 marla, the per kitchen payment will probably be Rs 100 monthly. For homes starting from 10 Marla to 1 Kanal, a payment of Rs 200 will probably be charged. 250 rupees is proposed for homes starting from 1 kanal to 2 kanal whereas Rs 350 per kitchen above 2 kanal is proposed.
• Provision of person payment in villages additionally mounted: for households as much as 5 Marla person payment has been mounted at Rs.50; The person payment has been mounted at Rs 100 for as much as 1 kanal. For above 1 kanal, it is going to be 200 rupees; For a home having a number of rooms, Rs 30 will probably be charged per kitchen.
• A avenue vendor has proposed a person payment of Rs 100 whereas for business institutions – dhabas, candy outlets or espresso homes – Rs 500. 500 is mounted for SCO/SCF usually commerce additionally.
• Rs 2,000 has been proposed for Dharamshala, visitor home, constructing and restaurant with a seating capability of fifty folks.
• A month-to-month payment of Rs 3,000 was proposed for eating places as much as three stars and eating places with a seating capability of greater than 50 folks.
• It is proposed to cost Rs 2,000 for as much as 50 beds at business places of work, authorities places of work, banks, clinic dispensaries and Rs 4000 for golf equipment, halls, multiplexes.
• Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma informed The Indian Express: “Previous charges have been sq. meters and Chandigarh has a home measurement in sq. yards, so the employees will collate the calculations. In the proposed agenda, the charges have been barely increased and have now been lowered. “

Congress councilor Devinder Singh Babla stated, “They were putting economic burden on the people but after our argument, the rates were reduced.”

Tender for mechanized sweeping

Mechanized sweeping was mentioned when the Lions requested for an extension of the contract, when a disagreement was seen. Although some BJP councilors have been in favor of extending the contract, some in Congress stated that new corporations ought to be given an opportunity.

Lions was charging Rs 4.5 crore monthly for mechanized cleansing within the southern belt. “If we float a fresh tender, a company with latest technology can also come for Rs 3 crore,” Babla stated.

A committee of the civic physique had really helpful that the contract of M/s Lions – which was searching for three extra years – can’t be prolonged.

The Chief Accounts Officer submitted that the present contract was signed in 2016 and was attended by solely two corporations at the moment and the contract was allotted to Messrs. Lion Services Limited. Since then, many different corporations have come to market.

The Law Officer submitted that the phrases and circumstances relating to fee of emoluments admissible to the workers of M/s Lion Services Limited must be reviewed as per the newest labor legal guidelines.

The committee unanimously resolved that the contract be allotted afresh.

Relief for sellers

The House additionally determined to represent a committee to supply some reduction to the distributors through the pandemic. The committee of councilors and officers will assess the waiving of distributors’ charges and different reliefs to the residents for May.

Water responsibility

A number of days in the past, the UT administrator had prohibited the hike in water charges until March 31, 2022, saying that the earlier water charges would stay in power until then.

The councilors demanded that the earlier elevated charges paid by the folks ought to be adjusted within the new payments. However, the Municipal Commissioner didn’t agree, saying that there isn’t a point out of the adjustment of the earlier paid payments within the new one. It was additionally determined to cut back the sewer cess from 30 to five p.c.