North Corpn to buy sucker machine at 3 times more rates

In the meeting of Standing Committee, North Corporation, a proposal
was passed today for procurement of the machine. The cost of machine is
Rs 4 crore but the off-take will be Rs 12 crore wherein six years
maintenance (three years more than normal warranty) charge has also been
included.

According to the North corporation officials, out of two super
suckers available with the erstwhile Corporation one had been allocated
to East Corporation and another is running on sharing basis in North and
South Corporations.

Leader of opposition in North Corporation, Mr Mukesh Goel, has raised
a question on the decision and said: “What does it mean purchasing a
super sucker machine at three times more rates though the extended
period of warranty is just only three years. So in my view it is not a
clever decision to buy at Rs 12 crore instead of Rs 4 crore,” adding “In
erstwhile corporation 2009, the civic body had purchased some JCBs
which went out of control within a year because there has been chines
parts in the machine. And when it went out of control we couldn’t get
new parts. So this time, we need to make a sensible decision.”

The Standing committee chairman Mr Ramkishan Singhal while defending
the decision, said: “For handling this machine we needed a technical
operator where the company is also taking accountability of this thing.
If the Corporation will hire a technical operator it will also cost.”