Delhi

MCG yet to initiate action against C&D waste handling firm for flouting norms

Parvesh Sharma

Even after demands of action by the councillors of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) against IL&FS (the concessionaire for handling C&D waste) for flouting MCG norms during the second consecutive house meeting held on Monday and despite Mayor Madhu Azad who had also ordered an inquiry, the MCG is yet to take any action against the firm despite completion of two months.

During the MCG house meeting, the MCG councillors created a ruckus and sought an answer from the corporation officials.

Ward No-19 Councillor Ashwani Sharma alleged that in the show-cause notice to the corporation, the company officials fails to give any satisfactory answers.

The councillors had alleged that the MCG had allotted the company to process the debris, but it is alleged that the company has given its work to some other agency, which is completely against the agreement.

The MCG has signed a 20-year agreement with the company for the disposal of debris in the city. It is written in the agreement that the company cannot sublet its work to any other agency, but despite this, the company has sublet the debris disposal work to any other agency which is completely against the norms.

After the matter came to light, on July 30, Mayor Madhu Azad had ordered an inquiry which was submitted by August 4 at the Mayor office but even after two months, no action against the firm yet to be taken.

"The firm had deliberately bypassed the agreement norms. In response to the show-cause notice of the corporation, the C&D waste handling firm written that it has nothing to do with other companies even though both the companies are owned by the same owner and the office address is also the same. Now it is expected that the MCG Commissioner will take concrete action in the matter," said Ashwani Sharma, Councilor, Ward-19.