The Times of India              03.09.2013

Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon shows the door to two tainted sanitation agencies

GURGAON: After months of sustained pressure from the residents and numerous complaints, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon on Monday blacklisted two tainted sanitation agencies. Now, the agencies will never be able to participate in any bidding process in entire Haryana.

MCG commissioner P C Meena blacklisted Balaji Security Services and Perfect Manpower Solutions Pvt Ltd Gurgaon after cancelling their tenders. While Balaji Security Service was handling sanitation work for zones 1, 3 and 4 in addition to villages and outer colonies, Perfect Manpower Solution was awarded the sanitation contract for zone 2. According to a source, the owner of the two agencies is same. The new contract has been given to Sulabh International and another private firm, say officials.

The MCG authorities say that despite giving several opportunities the two agencies failed to improve their performance. "As per the tender conditions the contractors were required to deploy 2,136 sweepers with all necessary equipment for cleanliness and garbage transportation vehicles including tractors. But when the work done by them in the past two months was reviewed, it was found that both the firms neither fulfilled the condition of deploying adequate manpower as per tender conditions nor provided sufficient equipment to clean the city," said Meena.

"It was clearly mentioned in the contract that the firms were to use bio-metric machines for daily attendance of the sweepers, which they did not do. The agencies have not only violated the tender and work-order conditions but also performed poorly during the past two months. This resulted in a number of complaints received from the residents and councillors. Even after several notices issued to the firms, they did not improve the sanitation work and ignored the directions given by us. Despite a final show-cause notice issued to them on July 30, no improvement in their work was noticed," Meena said.

Last year, the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad had also de-listed Balaji Security Service for non-performance.