Ludhiana: The Congress MLA from north constituency, Rakesh Pandey, conducted a meeting with MC commissioner Pardeep Sabharwal about pending development works in various wards of the constituency on Saturday at the civic body’d zone D office. Congress councillors Gurpreet Singh and Money Grewal also accompanied the MLA.
The major complaint was about pending LED streetlight work and road work in the wards under the constituency. The councilors claimed that at least 25% streetlights were yet to be replaced with LED ones in the constituency because the MC had not cleared the payment of Tata company
MLA Pandey asked the commissioner to get the work done as soon as possible as people were suffering a lot. He asked about the payment to contractors because most of them were not starting the work by citing the reason that they did not get payments.
The MLA had been reportedly irked over the pending works in the wards for the past so many months. He said that works were either at the tender stage or these had been left in between, so it was necessary to discuss things in detail, but the commissioner was busy with some emergency, so they could not discuss for long. He said the commissioner had assured them of resolving the issues as soon as possible and they would conduct one detailed meeting in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Money Grewal said the major problem was of streetlights as Tata company did not complete the work in the wards. He said the commissioner claimed that payments were going to be released shortly and work would begin.
Private company to develop green belts along Buddha Nullah
MLA Pandey said that he got a proposal from a private company to develop the green belts and parks around Buddha Nullah, so he got the contract between the company and MC finalised on Saturday. He said in the coming days company would start work around the drain.