‘Contractor getting food bills of 500 people’
Irregularities alleged in Indira canteen
Mangaluru, Jan 3: “There is irregularity in bill payments of five Indira canteens from the City Corporation and the Labour department. Though only 150 customers visit each Indira canteen every day, the contractors have been getting the payment for 500 customers”, alleged city corporation opposition leader Premananda Shetty.
In Indira canteen, Rs 5 was fixed for breakfast, and Rs 10 each for lunch and dinner. But the local body and the labour department have been paying Rs 7 per breakfast and Rs 14 per meal to the contractor. Of which, the city corporation has been bearing 70 percent and Labour department has been paying remaining 30 per cent.
Each Indira canteen would get 100-150 customers every day. But the contractors were being given the payment for 500 customers. The Mayor and the officials concerned should give clarification about this, Shetty demanded in a press conference.
An organization called Sai Hospitality has got the contract of the Indira Canteens in the city. Interestingly, the bills being given to the company are being prepared in the city corporation. The mayor has to clarify on how they have kept a tab on the number of customers for each canteen. The city corporation has spent Rs 80 lakh for Electrification, Drainage, Compound wall, Interlocks and other facilities. But there was no mention on utilizing the city corporation funds for the canteens, he said.
Clock tower work delayed
There was a proposal before the police department to allow one-way traffic movement on the road between Clock Tower and AB Shetty Circle near Hampankatta. This would solve the problem that New Clock Tower would create inconvenience to traffic movement due to which, the clock tower work was delayed, he said.
City Corporation members Ganesh Hosabettu, Sudhir Shetty Kannur, Roopa D Bangera, Vijay Kumar Shetty and others were present.
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Notices issued to Himachal conductor, driver for anti-Rahul Gandhi audio clip playing in govt bus
Shimla, Nov 30: After finding itself in soup over a CID enquiry on "missing samosas", the Himachal Pradesh government is again in a tight spot for issuing notices to a state roadways conductor and driver after an audio clip with defamatory remarks against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was allegedly played in their bus.
A man in his complaint to the Chief Minister's Office said defamatory words were used against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and other leaders in an audio clip which was played in the Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus plying between Shimla and Sanjauli on November 5.
In a letter to the conductor and driver of the bus on November 25, the HRTC sought explanation from them. The letter went viral on the internet.
Talking to reporters on Friday, HRTC Managing Director Rohan Chand Thakur said a routine complaint was received from a customer after which a fact finding enquiry was initiated. The enquiry was closed as the allegations were found baseless.
However, the wording of the explanation sought could have been better and the officers have been verbally conveyed to improve in the coming times, he added.
The defamatory words were allegedly used in a debate being played in the audio clip.
Reacting sharply to the letter, BJP MLA from Dharamshala, Sudhir Sharma, said the government should appoint marshals to stop audios being played in buses.
"Such decisions of the government are damaging the reputation of the state government as well as the state," he added.
Earlier, the state CID department had ordered an internal enquiry on the samosas which were brought for Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu during a function and by mistake were served to the his security staff. A senior police official had termed the faux pas as an anti-CID and ant-Government act.
