GREATER NOIDA: A new action plan will be put in place from the next year to maintain flora and fauna in Greater Noida, officials have said. Taking note of frequent complaints sent by residents’ groups, the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) has decided to link billing of its contractor assigned with horticulture duties with productivity. The authority had set aside Rs 9.94 crore for horticulture works in the current fiscal.
Divided into 40 residential blocks, Greater Noida has been split into eight work circles and water and sewerage divisions have been earmarked as ninth and tenth work circles.
Officials said that from now, all horticulture-related activities will be under the horticulture department and vendors and contractors will be appointed directly to make sure works such as tree plantation, grass bed, pathway, pruning, tree maintenance, pit area, watering, barbed wire fencing and boundary walls around park do not get delayed.
The chief executive officer of the authority, Narendra Bhooshan, said that instead of appointing multiple vendors in a single residential block, only one contract will be awarded. A single contractor will be appointed for an area under the revised system. “The bond will remain effective for a year and will be renewed if the performance of the contractor is satisfactory,” said Bhooshan.
The horticulture department will be responsible for checking the progress of maintenance and development works two times in a month and will have to submit two reports to the accounts department. “In case quality is poor or the time set for completing the project is not met with, payment will not be released for the said period,” added Bhooshan. Three annexures have been finalised this week for overseeing work within residential blocks, central verge and rotaries.
Authority has already appointed composite tender covering 10 localities.
General secretary of the Delta 2 residents welfare association, Alok Nagar said: “Every now and then we keep hearing about new schemes and initiatives but things rarely change on the ground. We have been complaining about the poor conditions of the boundary walls in different blocks in Delta to authority officials. But nothing much has been done.”