KANPUR: Mayor Jagatveeer Singh Drona on Saturday conceded that in the first year of his tenure, the municipal corporation had failed to meet people's expectations in the cleaning of nullahs and lifting of garbage. However, his first year as mayor had several achievements, said the mayor citing enhanced co-ordination among the corporators, officials, employees and the public.
The first person of the city said that desilting of nullah and lifting of garbage were hampered because of several reasons. However, the situation was better than previous years. He attributed his failure to perform up to expectations to limited resources, manpower and staff crunch.
He said city produced 1,200 tonnes of garbage daily. Despite efforts the corporation managed to life merely 1,000 tonnes of the garbage on daily basis. He said that A2Z and corporation employees both had been deployed to life garbage. "We are unable to lift the entire garbage produced by the city in a day. Hence 200 tonnes of garbage that is left in the city every day appears to be a big heap," the mayor said.
Blaming early monsoon for disturbing nullah cleaning exercise, he said that daily arrear of garbage was seeping into the nullahs with rainwater. When his attention was drawn towards the inquiry conducted by the commissioner, he said commissioner might not be satisfied therefore he ordered a probe.About staff crunch he said several posts were lying vacant. Six posts of deputy city commissioner were lying vacant along with two posts of assistant municipal commissioner. Every section of the corporation was battling staff crisis, he added.
Citing his achievements, Drona said municipal corporation realized around Rs 90 crore in previous financial year which was a record. Payment of Rs 28 crore arrears of VIth Pay Commission was also cleared. Developmen work worth Rs 114 crore was either finished or was underway. Every newly constructed road had a life of three years. When his attention was drawn towards roads being constructed without drains had led to waterlogging, the mayor said that bills of those roads were yet to be cleared. About error in house tax bills he said that round figure was allowed by him and it did not make much of a difference in the total bill amount.
The first person of the city said that desilting of nullah and lifting of garbage were hampered because of several reasons. However, the situation was better than previous years. He attributed his failure to perform up to expectations to limited resources, manpower and staff crunch.
He said city produced 1,200 tonnes of garbage daily. Despite efforts the corporation managed to life merely 1,000 tonnes of the garbage on daily basis. He said that A2Z and corporation employees both had been deployed to life garbage. "We are unable to lift the entire garbage produced by the city in a day. Hence 200 tonnes of garbage that is left in the city every day appears to be a big heap," the mayor said.
Blaming early monsoon for disturbing nullah cleaning exercise, he said that daily arrear of garbage was seeping into the nullahs with rainwater. When his attention was drawn towards the inquiry conducted by the commissioner, he said commissioner might not be satisfied therefore he ordered a probe.About staff crunch he said several posts were lying vacant. Six posts of deputy city commissioner were lying vacant along with two posts of assistant municipal commissioner. Every section of the corporation was battling staff crisis, he added.
Citing his achievements, Drona said municipal corporation realized around Rs 90 crore in previous financial year which was a record. Payment of Rs 28 crore arrears of VIth Pay Commission was also cleared. Developmen work worth Rs 114 crore was either finished or was underway. Every newly constructed road had a life of three years. When his attention was drawn towards roads being constructed without drains had led to waterlogging, the mayor said that bills of those roads were yet to be cleared. About error in house tax bills he said that round figure was allowed by him and it did not make much of a difference in the total bill amount.
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