Nagpur: The cash strapped NMC will spend Rs1.12 crore to procure
modular furniture for the Smart City office to be set up on the 7th floor of NMC’s new administrative building. The project department has submitted a proposal in this regard to the standing committee, which is scheduled to meet on July 19.
Earlier, the floor was reserved for official meetings, but after Nagpur was selected under the Smart City project, NMC earmarked the entire floor to house the Smart City office. According to the proposal, the amount to be spent includes 3% architect’s fee and 18% GST.
Similarly, the electric department submitted a proposal for air-conditioning the entire seventh floor at a cost of Rs38.14 lakh.
Meanwhile, a health department proposal to pay Rs20.85 lakh to a firm supplying cow dung cakes to NMC’s crematoriums will also be tabled before the standing committee. The department also submitted a proposal to entrust firms to supply cow dung cakes till May 2020.
Other proposals to come up before the meeting include Rs28.95 lakh for construction of a damaged bridge on Ring Road at Kamgar Chowk, Rs39.36 lakh for renovation of Indira Gandhi Hospital in Corporation Colony, Rs51.83 lakh for construction of a nullah on Risaldar Road to Adarsh School, and Rs92.88 lakh for construction of stormwater network in Jogi Nagar Bhim Nagar area.
