Mayor Asha lakra’s Personal Assistant (PA) Kusheshwar has been allegedly involved in corruption. The issue was brought into light by the councillor of ward number 25 Md Aslam through a recorded audio clipping of a telephone conversation in Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) board meeting on Thursday.
Kusheshwar was heard of seeking money from a person over the technical bid. According to Aslam, eight tenders were decided by RMC in 2014 of which one technical bidder was decided. Kusheshwar had asked the person on the other side to come and meet him personally over the charges for changing the name of the bidder.
Sources maintained the RMC has written the State Government to look into the matter. lakra was unavailable for her comments. Ward councillors said Mayor has requested them to lodge an FIR against her PA since she was unaware about the incident and is not connected with the matter.
The board meeting was headed by Mayor, Deputy Mayor Sanjeev Vijaywargia, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Prashant Kumar, Deputy CEO Om Prakash and Former District Transport Officer Rajesh Kumar. RMC has decided to approve tenders of schemes ranging upto Rs 1.5 lakh.
later, Councillor of ward number 28 Ashok Kumar Baraik raised query over illegal mobile towers. The corporation will soon conduct a survey over such mobile towers. CEO said that there are 500 illegal mobile towers in the state capital and 13 registered mobile towers. “We have received application for NOC of 91 mobile towers,” he added.
The salary of fourth grade employees of the corporation will be hiked by Rs20 from April 1. Presently, these employees are receiving a monthly salary of Rs168. RMC has plans of introducing new form of dustbins. A sample of such a dustbin was noticed by RMC officials in Koderma where there is a small door space within the bin.
Every ward is likely to have a 200 litre water tanker. RMC will be locating space for a community centre and ward office in each ward. Aslam said community centre will be made on the top floor of a building and ward office on the ground floor. Notably, ward councillors and every RMC officer will now have to submit the details of amount utilised under his or her custody.