Charanjit Singh Teja

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 30

The General House meet of the Amritsar Municipal Corporation (MC) will be held at Ranjit Avenue office on Thursday afternoon.

Mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu stated that all the health guidelines issued by the government in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic will be followed. This will be the first General House meet in the last 10 months.

The MC officials said the meeting will be attended by only councillors and heads of departments. The Mayor appealed the participants to wear masks and use sanitisers before the meeting.

The councillors condemned the Mayor and MC officials for not announcing the meeting 72 hours before. Some councillors stated that they had not received agenda of the meeting.

According to information, the House would discuss the proposal to improve air quality index of the city and ban on plastic bags. There is a proposal to notify slums to provide basic facilities. Several development proposals would also be discussed.

It’s being expected that meeting would be a stormy affair as the Congress councillors and oppositions have several grievances with work orders passed through the Finance and Contract Committee.

Objections raised on tendering proposal

SS Sharma, an RTI activist, has written to MC Commissioner Komal Mittal and alleged misappropriations in tendering of environment programme phase 1 and phase 2. Sharma claimed that a bidder, who had been rejected in one bid, was being cleared in another. The proposal of the environment project would be discussed in the General House meet. Sharma suspected a scam worth crores in connivance with the MC officials in it.
It’s being expected that the meeting would be a stormy affair as the Congress councillors and oppositions have several grievances with work orders passed through the Finance and Contract Committee.