The Hindu 23.08.2012
Decentralised GHMC transport wing soon
GHMC’s health & sanitation department has decided to decentralise
its problematic transport wing and distribute vehicles along with
related fuel and maintenance issues to all18 circle offices.
This, senior officials hope, will bring about some order by reducing expenditure and arrest the rampant diesel pilferage.
The
municipal corporation owns close to 700 vehicles of different kinds for
transporting officials and garbage. These vehicles have been
functioning from the three parking yards- Khairatabad, Kavadiguda and
Malakpet, which are also equipped with fuel-filling stations.
Until
now, vehicles irrespective of which areas they were moving in, had to
return to either of the three parking yards to get gas filled. In the
last few years, a few scams like the abnormal rise in vehicles’
maintenance bills and siphoning of diesel surfaced.
Senior
officials, having realised that the three vehicle yards had become
impregnable dens, thought it fit to break the stranglehold by dispersing
vehicles and drivers into the five zones and thereby the circles.
In
the last few days, parking sites were identified in different circles.
If sufficient space was not available within the municipal offices,
nearby sites like the Quli Qutb Shah Urban Development Authority
(QQSUDA) office space, Ziaguda slaughterhouse, empty space opposite the
Sanjeevaiah Park and the like were taken.
Once GHMC Commissioner
M.T. Krishna Babu signs the final orders, the Deputy Commissioner,
assistant medical officials and sanitary supervisor concerned under the
overall control of the Zonal Commissioner would issue fuel coupons, see
to the daily allotment of vehicles, procurement of lubricants, on road
& off road condition of vehicles, etc.
Salaries and bills too
will be disbursed at the zone level. Nine private fuel-filling stations
have been contracted for supplying diesel in different circles .
Old
parking stations like Malakpet will be catering only to vehicles of
circles four & eight (Charminar & Gunfoundry), Kavadiguda for
vehicles of circle nine (Himayatnagar) and Khairatabad for vehicles
moving in the area of circle 10.
“We are looking at better
monitoring of vehicles and staff, avoiding unnecessary trips for
fuel-filling and also keeping a check on pilferage,” explained
Additional Commissioner (H&S) L. Vandan Kumar.
This is to bring about some order by reducing expenditure and arrest rampant diesel pilferage