‘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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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
