The private firms involved in installation of hoardings business might earn a little profit due to the implementation of Model Code of Conduct as the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) would not be charging any new rate on them and the tenders would be sold with same old rate.
Basically, the corporation used to pass new tenders each year during April with a new rate for the installation of hoardings in the town. But due to the implementation of model code of conduct in the state capital the tenders would be delayed for two months. MCD won’t be passing any new tenders during this course of period. Source of MCD revealed that unlike each year the private companies won’t have to pay extra amount for the tenders at least for next two months. When asked about the hoarding tenders issue, Secretary of the Musoorrie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) and the acting Additional Mukhya Nagar Adhikari (AMNA) at Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD), Bansidhar Tiwari informed that the same tender rates would be extended for the next two months and no new rates would be imposed till the elections are over.
A source from MCD on condition of anonymity revealed that new tenders would be passed with an increased rate of around 10 percent and would be affected after the completion of the elections. He informed that last year a tender of around Rs 2.5 crore was passed for installation hoardings in the town. He added that the percentage of extra charges imposed on the tenders rates vary each year between 10 to 50 per cent. leader of Opposition at MCD Ninu Sehgal stated that the private companies involved in installing hoarding business would definitely have a profitable business this year as they would have to pay the new charges just for next 10 months from June onwards.