Chandigarh, May 27:- Smt. Raj Bala Malik, Mayor, Chandigarh today called an emergency meeting of Chief Engineer and Chairman, Water Supply & Sewerage disposal committee in her office regarding supply of low water pressure in city.
The meeting was attended by Sh. Anil Kumar Dubey, Chairman, Water Supply & Sewerage disposal committee and Sh. Shailender Singh, Chief Engineer, MCC. During the meeting she asked the chief engineer to take necessary steps on the water supply issue in this summer season and maintain sufficient water supply to the city residents.
The chief engineer informed the Mayor and the Chairman that the entire team of engineers monitoring this issue very closely. He informed that 18 teams have been constituted and these teams would daily visit their respective areas early in the morning from 1st June, 2020 to 15th July, 2020. These teams would check that there is no wastage of water, overflow of water tank, leakage of water supply line and other precautionary measures. He further assured that he would personally monitor and sort out the issues during this summer season.
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After the discussion the Mayor asked the Chairman Sh. Anil Kumar Dubey to call a special meeting of water supply and sewerage disposal committee on Monday to discuss this serious issue.
The Mayor also instructed the Chief Engineer to depute concerned engineers to visit the areas alongwith the chairman of committee Sh. Anil Kumar Dubey, where water supply is in low pressure and check the measures to be taken to maintain the full pressure water supply during summer season.
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Chandigarh, May 19:- Chandigarh got 3 star garbage free city tag today in the rating of cities for their garbage management.
While sharing this information Smt. Raj Bala Malik, Mayor, Chandigarh said that the government today released a rating of cities for their garbage management, giving the ‘3 Star garbage-free’ tag to Chandigarh, while announcing that the Swachh Bharat Mission has been the greatest strength in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
She said that Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced the results of garbage-free star rating for the cities.
She said that it was made possible with the able guidance and administration of Sh. V.P. Singh Badnore, Governor, Punjab & Administrator, Chandigarh and Sh. Manoj Parida, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, Chandigarh.
Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh said that the star rating of garbage free cities is an initiative launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, envisions to enable cities to gradually evolve into a model (7-Star) city, with progressive improvements in their overall cleanliness. The star rating conditions were based on 25 key parameters across the solid waste management spectrum and has been designed to both help cities assess their progress while encouraging them to move towards a better rating thereby improving their cities’ overall cleanliness and aesthetics.
He further said that in order to institutionalize a mechanism for cities to achieve garbage free status, and to motivate the cities to achieve higher degrees of cleanliness, a Star rating protocol was defined for garbage free cities, which builds on aspirations of cities to progress towards higher standards of Swachhata.
The Commissioner said that the star rating was supported by a robust verification mechanism to ensure transparency and standardization. Cities were required to carry out self-assessment and self-verification for achieving a certain star rating. This self-declaration was further verified through an independent third-party agency appointed by MoHUA for Star Garbage free ratings, he added.
He further said “we are committed to serve city beautiful with full dedication and sincerity”.
While expressing her gratitude towards each stakeholder of the City beautiful, the Mayor said that this tag has been achieved with the full co-operation and contribution of each stakeholder of the city including RWAs, MWAs, Hotal Associations, Schools, Colleges, Govt. institutes, societies and “Safai Sainiks” of MCC. She appealed to all these stakeholders to maintain this status and sought cooperation to achieve the next milestone in garbage disposal management.
Chandigarh, May 15:-A meeting of Finance & Contract Committee, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh was held here today under the chairpersonship of Smt. Raj Bala Malik and attended by Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Sh. Vinod Aggarwal, Smt. Ravinder Kaur Gujral, Sh. Sanjay Kumar Jha, IAS, Special Commissioner, Sh. Tilak Raj and Sh. Anil Kumar Garg, Additional Commissioners, Sh. Shailender Singh, Chief Engineer and other senior officers of MCC were present during the meeting.
The Mayor lauded the efforts and work done by the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh to fight against COVID-19 under the leadership of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, MCC. She also presented flower bouquet to the Commissioner for the whole team on behalf of the F&CC members and all councilors of MCC.
She briefed that during the lockdown period, the officers & officials of MCC were providing essential services to the citizens in addition to their own basic responsibilities including regular water supply, proper sanitation of the city and other works. She said that the prime responsibility of contact tracing of positive cases was also performed by the MCC officials upto the mark. She said that Sector Response Teams have performed their best to service the citizens.
The Mayor said that in addition to that the MCC has provided relief in property tax, vendor fee, water supply bills have been rescheduled keeping in view the larger interests of general public. In addition to that the MCC employees have donated Rs. 51 lacs in the COVID relief fund from their salaries.
The members of committee discussed various important agenda items in detail and accorded approval for the following:
· Regarding purchase of relief operations for COVID-19 under the Medical Officer of Health at an estimated cost of Rs. 45 lacs.
· Release of salary of staff of civil dispensary-49 and extension in the time limit for the services of Data Entry operators against the sanction post of steno typist in engineering wing, MCC.
· The committee relaxed the time period of issuance notices to the Kumhars of Kumhar colony, Maloya in regard to pay their outstanding dues. The notices will now be served during the month of July and last date has been fixed to deposit the dues upto 31st December, 2020.
· The committee approved the replacement of spare parts of both HPTTL vehicles at an estimated cost of Rs. 13.68 lacs.
· The committee also relaxed the increase in rent of commercial shops in villages and decided that the rent will be accepted for one year with 10% increase on existing rates only for all the 13 villages.
· The committee also fixed the monthly rent of 3.5 acre land allotted to nurseries at village Mauli Jagran @ Rs. 30000 per month per acre upto September, 2020.
· Purchase of 6 green crusher for use in horticulture division at an estimated cost of Rs. 19.33 lacs.
· Purchase of one truck with hydraulic system for cattle catching at an estimated cost of Rs. 15.75 lacs.
· The agenda item regarding disposal and fixation of rent of kiosks at food street, sector 48 will be put up in the general house meeting.
· The committee also accorded approval of Rs. 35/- per sq. ft. for providing barricades of pipe available in road sub division No.2, MCC.
· The committee accorded approval to the renewal of license of Chandigarh washerman workshop cooperative industrial society Ltd., sector 15, Chandigarh upto September, 2020 with 10% increase in existing rent.
· Procurement of material for control of COVID-19 under engineering wing, MCC at an estimated cost of Rs. 53.46 lacs.
· Chargeable to implementation of COVID-19 duty by the engineering wing, MCC at an estimated cost of Rs. 29.91 lacs.
· The committee also accorded approval to the disposal of garbage bags collected from the people of quarantine in the city and its scientific disposal at insenator at industrial area at an estimated cost of Rs. 41 lacs.
· The Mayor asked the MOH to take up the cleanliness of back lanes on priority and required tools be provided to their employees to maintain the cleanliness of back lanes throughout the city.
· During the meeting it was discussed and decided that the MoH wing of MCC will impart training regarding inhouse and outside sanitation of govt. offices to the employees of different govt. offices in the city from Monday onwards infront of MoH office, 30 bays building, Sector 17, Chandigarh from 8.00 am to 8.30 am daily.
Chandigarh, May 8:- Smt. Raj Bala Malik, Mayor, Chandigarh today reviewed the works related to the Municipal Corporation with Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner and other officers including Sh. Anil Kumar Garg, Additional Commissioner, Sh. Shailander Singh, Chief Engineer, Sh. Sanjay Arora, SE B&R and Sh. Krishan Pal Singh, SE, Horticulture, MCC.
During the review meeting the officers apprised Mayor about the present status of works alongwith Govt. guidelines and priorities of executing civic works. She directed the concerned engineering officers to speedup the works including Roads, upgradation of water storage tank, sector 39 water works, ongoing projects of old villages and project of dark spots etc.
Chandigarh, May 5:- Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh-cum-CEO, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd. launched the web portal of Chandigarh Smart City, www.chandigarhsmartcity.inat the newly started command and control center at MCC building, here today.
Sh. Yadav Said that with the launch of the Chandigarh Smart City Portal, the people of the Chandigarh can view the various initiatives taken by the Chandigarh Smart City Limited along with the status of the various works being executed for the benefit of the citizens under smart city mission.
He said that it will also facilitate the citizens of the Chandigarh to access the various online services of MCC & UT Administration including Online Building Plan Approval System through a single smart city web portal. Citizens shall also have the option to submit their opinion and feedback on various important issues, which will helpful for efficient and citizen friendly planning of developmental works. On the line of this web portal, a mobile app will also be prepared for the facilitation of the citizens.
The following officers were also present during the occasion namely Sh. Anil Kumar Garg, PCS, Addl. Commissioner-cum-Addl. CEO, CSCL, Sh. N.P. Sharma, CGM, CSCL and other staff of Chandigarh Smart City Limited.
Chandigarh, April 25:- Smt. Raj Bala Malik, Mayor, Chandigarh today formally opened the COVID Command and Control Center at MCC office, Sector 17, Chandigarh in the presence of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner-cum-CEO, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd., Sh. Anil Kumar Garg, Additional CEO, CSCL, Sh. N.P. Sharma, Chief General Manager, CSCL and other concerned officers of CSCL and MCC.
The Mayor appreciated the efforts of concerned officers for providing this facility on war footing level and started its full operation from today. She said that the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh and Chandigarh Smart City Limited has implemented the Common Command and Control Centre particularly dedicated to COVID-19, besides usual services given by Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh.
She said that it will immensely help the city in studying and being prepared in case of lager outbreaks of the COVID-19 and accordingly the city administration can plan the resources ahead of the crisis.
Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh informed that this Command Center will monitor the following services:-
1. Monitoring of quarantine people and positive cases with their movement using Geo fencing services.
2. Sanitization of the area on real time basis.
3. Real time surveillance of Sabji Mandi, Sector 26 using cameras installed at periphery of Sabji Mandi to ensure sanitization and compliance to COVID guidelines.
4. Real time monitoring of sanitation services in the city to ensure the upkeep of the city which becomes very important especially in these conditions.
5. Real time monitoring of workers using wrist-watch watches.
He said that a data analytics and GIS platform has been installed to analyze the data coming from all relevant stake holders including health services, municipal services, police, daily essentials providers for grocery, dairy items, medicines, fruit and vegetable items etc. This will help in efficient planning of resources to be deployed in the field by predicting the scenarios using various data analytics techniques.
Besides this, other SCADA services like water, Street Lights, legacy waste bio-mining and sanitation will also be monitored at this common command and control center.
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Chandigarh, April 6:-In order to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 and act in accordance with the working requirements to prevent and sanitize the Vegetable & Fruit Market, Sector 26, the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh today meticulously sanitized the whole market with deploying 10 mechanical sprayers.
The sanitization drive carried out under the direct supervision of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, who is looking after the charge of uninterrupted supply of essential commodities to the residents of Chandigarh including vegetables, fruits and milk products on daily basis. He was accompanied by Ms. Najuk Kumar, IAS, SDM, Sh. Tilak Raj, Additional Commissioner, Sh. Anil Kumar Garg, Additional Commissioner, Dr. Amrit Warring, MOH and other officials of MCC and police personals.
The Commissioner informed that the supply of vegetables, fruits and grocery items are being supplied to the citizens from this market through 62 CTU buses and 20 vehicles of MCC on daily basis. Therefore, it has been decided to close this market on this Monday to sanitize it properly through mechanical sweepers and sprayers besides routine manual sweeping.
He said that having fleet of 10 different vehicles with mechanical sprayer facility fitted on them have put into service to sanitize the market including Water Cannon mechanical sprayer from Chandigarh Police, two tractors fitted with mechanical sprayers donated by farmers from Punjab and Fire Fighting Vehicles of MCC.
He said that in the early morning the routine sweeping was done through mechanical sweepers and manually by the sanitation staff of MCC and after that every noon and corner has been cleaned with Fire Fighting vehicles with water besides spraying chlorine spray with the mechanical sprayers. In addition to that the Buses and vehicles deployed to supply vegetables and fruits to the citizens on daily basis have been cleaned with the water and chlorine spray.
Chandigarh, March 19:- A meeting of Water supply and sewerage disposal Committee of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh was held here today under the chairmanship of Sh. Anil Kumar Dubey and attended by other members of the committee namely Sh. Jagtar Singh Jagga, Sh. Hardeep Singh Butrela, Sh. Bharat Kumar, Sh. Rajesh Gupta, Sh. Dalip Sharma and concerned officials of MCC.
During the meeting various issues regarding strengthening of water supply and sewerage disposal system were discussed and resolved the following agenda items:
· The members of committee recommended the provision of 5 succession machines for sewerage cleaning in the public health wing and asked the concerned officers to prepare agenda item for the house meeting.
· The committee asked for proper mapping of underground utilities including water supply lines and sewer lines alongwith storm water drainage system according to actual distance from the roads and underground electricity lines.
· The members asked the engineers to provide sufficient fuel in all the tubewells to run the generator sets during the electricity shut downs.
· The committee asked that location be identified to provide tubewell at village faidan and estimate be put up in the next meeting.
· The members asked the concerned engineers to prepare estimates regarding sewerage cleaning in colonies and villages at the earliest.
· The committee accorded approval for providing and laying of 6” i/d DI pipe line from existing tubewell booster at sector 31-D to existing CI pipe line to improve the water pressure near police station, sector 31-C at an estimated cost of Rs. 22.21 lacs.
· Providing and installation of 160 KV diesel gen set alongwith dewatering pumps and allied works contingent thereto at water works Kajauli Aug. water supply scheme phase 3, near Morinda at an estimated cost of Rs. 24.94 lacs.
· Rough Cost Estimate for providing, laying, jointing, testing & commissioning of 4” DI pipe line for interconnection newly bored tubewell, sector 20 D with existing booster sector 21-C at an estimated cost of Rs. 15.79 lacs.
Chandigarh, March 18:-A meeting of Roads Committee of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh was held here today under the chairmanship of Sh. Shakti Parkash Devshali and attended by other members of the committee namely Sh. Jagtar Singh, Sh. Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Sh. Anil Kumar Dubey, Sh. Mahesh Inder Singh Siddhu, Sh. Bharat Kumar, Sh. Davinder Singh Babla and concerned officials of MCC.
During the meeting various issues regarding B&R wing were discussed and resolved the following agenda items:
· The members of committee asked concerned officers to table action taken report of all works of B&R wing alongwith Ward Development Funds and MPLAD funds in the next meeting.
· The committee discussed the issue of strengthening of B&R wing alongwith provision of adequate machinery and decided that detailed report in this regard be put up in the next meeting.
· Report of road length of V-3, V-4, V-5 and V-6 roads falling under the jurisdiction of Municipal Corporation be prepared and put up in the next meeting to resolve repair work and patch work according to priority.
· The members were of the view that accurate measurement of job be taken in advance before preparing estimates of repair works to avoid delay in minor repair works etc.
· Rough Cost Estimate for providing and fixing PCC tiles in front of booth market, sector 41-D at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.93 lacs.
· RCE for construction of parking after dismantling of is-land in existing car Bazar parking near Ram Darbar, Hallomajra, Chandigarh at an estimated cost of Rs. 18.19 lacs.
· Revised RCE for providing and fixing 80mm thick paver blocks on internal roads in village Buterla, Chandigarh at an estimated cost of Rs. 18.99 lacs.
· RCE for special repair of existing cracks & spelled concrete in Fire Station building, sector 32, Chandigarh at an estimated cost of Rs. 5.99 lacs.
· RCE for construction of sealing wall and increasing of existing sealing on V-3 road between sector 32 & 33 at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.50 lacs.
· RCE for repair of paver blocks footpath damaged/depressed/broken portion along V-4 & V-5 road in sector 31 at an estimated cost of Rs. 15.55 lacs.
· RCE for repair of paver blocks footpath damaged/depressed/broken portion along V-4 & V-5 road in sector 47 at an estimated cost of Rs. 16.01 lacs.
· RCE for providing and fixing GI pipe railing (near Kirpal Ashram) sector 27 & infront of Mango Garden, Sector 28 at an estimated cost of Rs. 1.23 lacs.
· RCE for special repair of Dharmshala at village Khudda Lahora at an estimated cost of Rs. 14.26 lacs.
· RCE for special repair/maintenance of back service lanes in sector 2 to 5 at an estimated cost of Rs. 23.57 lacs.
· RCE for special repair of anganwari/AMU center at Sarangpur village, Chandigarh at an estimated cost of Rs. 2.70 lacs.
· RCE for special repair and renovation of Harijan Dharmshala at Sarangpur village at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.76 lacs.
· RCE for repair of internal gullies of village Dhanas & Sarangpur at an estimated cost of Rs. 10.17 lacs.
· RCE for repair 60mm thick paver blocks infront of H.No. 1 to 14 and H.No. 15 to 28 along V-4 road and backside of motor market in sector 21 at an estimated cost of Rs. 13.97 lacs.
· RCE for providing and fixing of 80mm thick paver blocks along phirni road in village Maloya at an estimated cost of Rs. 18.15 lacs.
· The Committee also resolved that the development works related to the villages be got done through the special village development fund.
Chandigarh, March 17:- Following the orders of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh a team of engineers of B&R circle of MCC conducted inspection of recarpeting work of road at sector 9/4 here today under chairmanship of Sh. Shailendra Singh, Chief Engineer accompanied by Sh. Sanjay Arora, Superintending Engineer, B&R and concerned Executive Engineer, Sub Divisional Engineer and contractor.
During the inspection it was found that the approved job mix formula and allotment letter was not available at site moreover, the percentage of bitumen in tack coat cannot be established since the plate to test the same was not available at site. Bitumen extraction, it was conducted and it was found that bitumen is as per job mix formula. The density on non nuclear density gauge was conducted and found 2202.5 kg/cum at 92.2% and compaction temperature of the material was found 39.2’C.
In view of the inspection, the Executive Engineer Road division No.3 was directed to examine the facts and ensure that the work is being executed strictly as per DNIT and MORTH specifications. The report in this regard shall be submitted with recommendations before making any payment to the contractual agency.
