The engineering department of the Chandigarh municipal corporation will not purchase any material for road and public health related works from outside the city. Materials like paver blocks, tiles, curb channels, manhole covers, road gullies covers, tree guard panels etc. will be prepared by city-based Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Plant, which is run by the MC. All the materials will be supplied to the MC by the plant.
The materials, which are used in huge quantity, were earlier purchased from private companies. However, this move will save the MC of crores of rupees.
The move has been taken following the meeting of the municipal commissioner, K K Yadav, with all the senior engineering officials of the MC a few days back. Since the collection of the C&D waste is the key aspect in this entire exercise, the commissioner directed the Building and Road (B&R) and Public Health wings of the MC’s engineering department to collect the C&D waste in a proper manner and monitor the whole exercise.
“We have been running the plant in two shifts now and the material for the MC’s engineering department will be prepared as per requirement. The engineering officers concerned have been asked to prepare a detailed report on the requirement of material and take the same as per their need,” said the municipal commissioner.
Sources in both the Building and Road (B&R) and Public Health wings of the MC revealed that they have even started placing orders and are changing materials as per availability with the C&D waste plant.
“We have already placed the order and also taking sand from the plant for our regular use. With this move, the civic body authority will manage to save a huge chunk of government money,” said an engineer of the MC.
