MC House meeting likely this week

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 1

The Municipal Corporation is planning to hold a House meeting around November 5. This will be the first meeting of the House since the ongoing financial year. Owing to the coronavirus spread, even the Budget meeting could not be held this year and the proposals were directly passed by the government.

The MC officials are planning to hold the meeting in a large hall of a hotel within the city. The MC’s Town Hall does not have enough space to accommodate 80 councillors and staff maintaining proper space as per the guidelines of the government. Mayor Jagdish Raja said: “We had planned a meeting on March 9 ahead of the lockdown, but could not hold it. We will follow the same agenda and make some additions to it. Most likely, the meeting will be held on November 5.”

Raja said: “Now that the Vidhan Sabha session has been held and Parliament session, too, was held, we thought we must go on with the MC House by exercising all precautions. I regret that there has been a long gap but we were helpless. To cover it up, from this time onwards, I intend to hold the House meeting after every 15 days against the stipulated norms of holding a meeting every month. Even though I have always been against implementing a plan and then getting it passed through house later, I regret that we have had to do that as well in these times. I will apologise in the House for passing certain resolutions which have already been implemented.”

The other issues to be discussed would include implementing a waste to manure project on a 4.5 acre land along Kala Sanghian drain. Organic waste from 25,000 houses will be brought here. Six pits are to be set up at a cost of Rs2.43 crore in Urban Estate Phase 2, Babu Jagjeevan Ram Chowk, Mithapur Colony, Basti Peer Daad and beneath Domoria bridge. Proposals for Smart City projects including setting up sanitary pad dispensers in 65 public toilets, setting up street vending zones and recruitment of 160 sewermen would also be taken up.