North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) on Friday knocked at the doors of the Delhi chief secretary DM Sapolia to bail it out from the current financial crisis.
The crisis at NDMC is so grave that the contractors and contractual workers of the corporation have threatened to go on strike from Monday onwards if payment of their outstanding dues is not made.
The workers have claimed that their dues have not been cleared for the past three to eight months. The threat of strike has come at a time when the city is fearing an outbreak of water-borne diseases. The monsoon season has also led to fears mosquito breeding.
The corporation has received only Rs 19 crore from the Delhi government against a budgetary allocation of Rs 513 crore in the first quarter of the current year.
‘The biggest challenge is to check mosquito breeding as contractual domestic breeding checkers (DBC) have threatened to go on strike demanding payment of their salaries that have been due for the past few months. The weather conditions are most conducive for mosquito breeding which may lead to spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue,’ said Azad Singh, NDMC mayor.
Singh along with NDMC standing committee chairman Ram Kishan Singhal and Leader of House Mahender Nagpal met Delhi chief secretary DM Sapolia on Friday.
‘We conveyed our worries over the financial crisis and the related issues to the chief secretary and requested him to release funds allocated for the corporation at the earliest,’ Singh added. According to the accounts department, the corporation needs around Rs 300 crore to clear the outstanding payments to ensure a smooth functioning. ‘The contractors have stopped taking our work tenders due to which regular work of sanitation and development works are also effecting,’ Nagpal said.
The crisis at NDMC is so grave that the contractors and contractual workers of the corporation have threatened to go on strike from Monday onwards if payment of their outstanding dues is not made.
The workers have claimed that their dues have not been cleared for the past three to eight months. The threat of strike has come at a time when the city is fearing an outbreak of water-borne diseases. The monsoon season has also led to fears mosquito breeding.
The corporation has received only Rs 19 crore from the Delhi government against a budgetary allocation of Rs 513 crore in the first quarter of the current year.
‘The biggest challenge is to check mosquito breeding as contractual domestic breeding checkers (DBC) have threatened to go on strike demanding payment of their salaries that have been due for the past few months. The weather conditions are most conducive for mosquito breeding which may lead to spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue,’ said Azad Singh, NDMC mayor.
Singh along with NDMC standing committee chairman Ram Kishan Singhal and Leader of House Mahender Nagpal met Delhi chief secretary DM Sapolia on Friday.
‘We conveyed our worries over the financial crisis and the related issues to the chief secretary and requested him to release funds allocated for the corporation at the earliest,’ Singh added. According to the accounts department, the corporation needs around Rs 300 crore to clear the outstanding payments to ensure a smooth functioning. ‘The contractors have stopped taking our work tenders due to which regular work of sanitation and development works are also effecting,’ Nagpal said.