The Hindu 24.08.2012
Mayor, Commissioner pull up GHMC staff
Two weeks of dry weather yet road carpeting works are
still to begin in many parts of the twin cities. Mayor Majid Hussain and
GHMC Commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu on Thursday blasted the engineering
section for not taking up these works despite express instructions and
release of necessary sanctions.
Even the sanitation
work was not upto mark and this was no way to prepare for the
forthcoming bio-diversity conference, they said and exhorted the entire
staff to pull up their socks at a meeting attended by all the senior
officers at the head office.
The Mayor was especially
scathing on the executive engineers for sitting on files and laying the
blame on the Zonal and Deputy Commissioners. The Commissioner said that
altogether 840 k.m. roads were identified in the bus plying routes for
taking up re-carpeting.
With regard to sanitation,
Mr. Hussain pointed out that the city would be clean if the 22,000-odd
staff worked properly for six hours in a day. The DCs were told to share
the seven member sanitation groups with the corporators and the
residential welfare associations concerned to ensure proper monitoring.
Since
each sanitary supervisor has to check maintenance of just 10 bins, if
any further negligence was noticed in their work , they would be
replaced without any delay, warned Mr. Krishna Babu.Payment
of salaries to the sanitary staff should be prompt and suspensions
would follow if there was any deliberate attempt in preventing the
payments to be made on time.
