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This project was earlier cleared by the finance and contract committee and the tenders were also floated. However, for the same project, another letter was circulated stating that senior deputy mayor Parveen Bansal had rejected the proposal. The area councillor Raju Thaper questioned the importance of both letters. Bansal maintained that bridge is not required in the area.

The Congress councillors, however, took a stand on the issue and said why were the tenders floated and later cancelled. The councillors staged a dharna in the house and later after much argument, the house cleared the project. Senior deputy mayor’s recommendations were declared null and void. Interestingly, no one from the BJP came up to support their partyman Bansal.

During the meeting, Congress councillors were seen dominating the show as most of the SAD-BJP councillors did not get any chance to speak at all. The house approved the amendments in building bylaws giving a nod to highrise skyline in the city. Most of the change in land use(CLU) cases were approved.

However, it was alleged that most of the development projects of making railway over bridges, elevated roads etc were within the city and nothing was being done to for the outer wards. 

Congress Councillor Anil Malhotra questioned about the grant worth Rs 50 crore which MP Manish Tewari got sanctioned for cleaning the Buddha Nallah.

On this the mayor replied that no funds had been received till date and the claims about the release of money were wrong. The sewerage board, meanwhile, was questioned about the delay in projects.

Commissioner A K Sinha pulled up officers and said,” An amount of Rs 6 crore is lying with the sewerage board and still the work is going at a snail’s pace.”

Councillors questioned the existence of 453 gardeners who were never seen in parks but allegedly at officers’ houses instead.

The commissioner stated that the number of gardeners had been distributed zone wise and Monday the names of the gardeners in each zone will be circulated to councillors so they can keep a tab.

Councillor Sanjay Talwar said that a well constructed road in Khud Mohalla had been laid again at a cost of Rs 4 lakh while another councillor stated that a road near Dholewal which had been laid 8 months ago was being re-laid.

Meanwhile, the house has also approved the indoor shooting range near Sunet village for which land has been given to the rifle association.