Category: NMC

An abysmal 38.09 percent poll was recorded on Thursday during the by-election for prabhag number 12(D). Of the total 58,162 voters, their franchise was exercised by just 21,151. The counting will take place on Friday at the Dharampeth area office of NMC, Gokulpeth, from 10 am. Five contestants were in the fray — Ashok Dorlikar, Praful Ganvir from Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh, Vikram Gwalbanshi from BJP, Akash Kawle from AAP, and Pankaj Shukla from Congress. After the death of four-time corporator Jagdish Gwalbanshi, a Sai Nagar resident, the by-election was required. The election passed peacefully and there was no incident that was untoward. A mere 6 per cent polling was registered during the first two hours. Also in the later part of the day there was a similar trend with the percentage not climbing every two hours to more than 5 percent. There are 30,235 male and 27,927 female voters in the ward. But there were only 11,948 male voters and 10,203 female voters. Officials blamed the poor show for bypolls on official working day apart from low enthusiasm among the masses. In the prabhag, the civic body had built 50 polling booths. BJP had chosen Vikram Gwalbanshi, the deceased corporator’s son, while Congress had chosen Pankaj Shukla, whose parents had also previously represented the district, Surendra and Nilima. The bypoll is not contested by the NCP and Shiv Sena. The dismal turnout of voters was because several voters in the city do not take bypoll as such seriously. “There should have been far better mobilization of workers and voters from our side too,” said the office-bearer of the BJP. Nevertheless, Congress staff pointed out that the turnout might have been higher if there had been a holiday like other surveys.

Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has failed to learn lessons and continued shoddy road repair works, prompting strictures from the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court. Within a week of being restored, several roads were lost. Beginning from the lake to HB Estate T-point, it has been in bad shape for the last couple of years. Every day, the road is experiencing huge traffic. The civic body began fixing potholes and bad surface layers throughout the area, either through its hot mix department or private agencies, after the strictures of HC. Accordingly, patchworks on Sonegaon Road were done by the NMC’s hot mix department from the start of the lake to HB Estate a week ago.

Last week, the city experienced a few days of medium to heavy rains. Gravels that are part of the asphalt have since begun to loosen up. Most of the repair work came off on Monday. Now, it looks like a huge amount of gravel has been dumped on the whole patch.

These patches now pose a threat to drivers. Gravel has accumulated along the roadside in a few areas, and the entire area has been modulated.

The situation on Sahakar Nagar Road, Jaiprakash Nagar Road and a couple of stretches of London Street is close. On the newly patched areas, even potholes have appeared in some locations.

Also damaged was the stretch from Amravati Road to MLA Hostel that passes through Priyadarshini Colony. The repair work was performed during October’s assembly elections.

The period of road works ‘ defect liability, including total asphalting and patchworks, is considered to be three years.

Earlier, similar complaints were made against NMC’s private agencies about inferior work quality. Most corporators said most of the NMC’s hot mix department’s asphalting work is satisfactory. But the same department repaired all the roads mentioned above.

The HC had acknowledged the report by TOI on bad roads that caused accidents. Hearing the PIL, the HC imposed strictures on the NMC and ordered the municipal commissioner to take stern action against the execution of shoddy works by officials and private agencies.

Nevertheless, the NMC has failed to improve road repair work quality. Ulhas Debadwar, chief engineer of NMC, made sure to look into the issue and ensure proper work efficiency.

Approximately 1,600 employees engaged in door-to-door rubbish collection and transport to Bhandewadi Dumping Yard left about 905 metric tons (MT) of a total of 1,255 MT in households and streets on Friday. Bhartiya Kamgar Sena extended the strike call, which was a result of delays in paying workers’ salaries by two operators — AG Enviro and BVG India — to Saturday. It will now rely on the workers whether to resume work or continue the strike, even as the operators have already paid their salaries.The two operators have taken over the work of Kanak Resources Management Ltd since 16 November. According to the unions, Kanak did not pay workers a salary of 15 days. New operators were supposed to pay workers wages by 7 December, but they also failed to do so. Approximately 800 workers from zones 1 to 5 working with AG Environ made a flash strike from the morning of Friday morning. Zone 6-10 staff under the BVG India started their work as usual. When they learned to strike in Zone 1-5, they also went on strike. The NMC sources told TOI that only 350 MT (27.8%) of the garbage could be transported to Bhandewadi. Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar said the garbage collection and transport will start from 1 pm and will be normalized from Saturday. “The two operators have been warned of any such problems in the future. It is their responsibility to ensure that salaries are paid on time.NMC should do its best to release payments every month, but operators should not find reasons for delays in NMC payments, “he said. Additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi said that only 40% of the garbage collection and transport had been affected. “We instructed the operators to continue to collect and transport until night,” he said.The NMC did not invoke the Authority. Sometimes, I guess, the last 15  days, sufficient notice of the employees and unions notices has not been taken. Congressman Praful Gudadhe said the workers were right to go on strike.  Workers are low and wages are important to them. They can not afford daily expenses if payments are postponed. They haven’t earned anything in the last two months.” After meeting with Bangar, union leader Suresh Talwekar said that the strike will begin on Saturday as employees have not earned the minimum wage. “Workers work in a filthy state and face serious health problems. They’re keeping the city clean. They should receive salaries and incentives on or before the 7th of each month, “he said.Bangar said the pay-related misunderstanding has been resolved. “Operators paid staff wages of 15 days. The salary for December is due to be paid in January. Workers wrongly believed it was a month’s salary that we made clear to them, “he said. Bangar’s refused strike will start on Saturday. “The problem has come to an end,” he said. Joshi said, “Some workers didn’t get a pay check on Friday because they couldn’t open the accounts. We told the operators to pay them by check on Saturday,” he said. Garbage could be seen dumped in huge quantities in various locations throughout the region. Citizens and business businesses could be seen dumping garbage at these sites because the collection did not take place in the morning.

Nagpur: In 2001, 47 roads had been widened by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) without shifting electric poles, transformers, etc., which later resulted in road damage. Through concretizing those roads without moving electric poles and utilities, the civic body and other government agencies are now repeating the same mistake.
A month ago, under the CM Special Fund, NMC concretized and extended a stretch of Sonegaon main road. On one side of the road on Sonegaon basti square, an electric transformer is now on the road.

A number of electric poles on the side of the old road are now in the carriageway on the same stretch. The stretch was about 9 meters wide earlier. Now the poles are covered completely by sheets of concrete pavers. They’re now a motorists threat.

At Sahakar Nagar, it’s the same. Here a six-meter wide path was concretized with blocks of pavers on either side for three metres. There are now many electric poles and a transformer in this extra three-meter field.
In Civil Lines, the situation on WCL Road is worse. MahaMetro is concretizing the stretch from the Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) office to the WCL road T-point to Telangkhedi Hanuman Mandir to Futala lake with the help of funds approved by the State’s Public Works Department.

Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will use the old vehicles in the city bus fleet to ply mobile toilet for women called’ Ti Bus.’ Mayor Sandip Joshi told this during a meeting with civil body officials at the NMC’s Central Office. He ordered the abandoned old busses to be used to build women’s toilets, and the same should be used in marketplaces. The meeting was attended by Dr. Pradeep Dasarwar, Health Officer (Cleanliness), Yogesh Lunge, Mechanical Engineer, Department of Transport, Shekhar Kant and Sandip Jat, both from Saraplast Enterprises.

One major complaint from women during his discussion with people was about the lack of public washrooms in marketplaces, which is a massive problem for them. Taking note of this, Mayor stepped into brass tracks and conveyed the meeting, saying that such mobile toilet buses should be deployed on the weekly market. Two or three buses will initially be converted and soon be stationed in suitable locations in the city. At Rahate Colony T-point, one bus would be deployed, and Mayor said 50 such mobile toilets are expected to be installed by changing NMC’s old buses. The buses would have a lady’s washroom facility, and a cafeteria is also expected to be fitted in the design in which they can make use of tea, snacks, Kant said, informing civil officials about the’ Ti Bus ‘ concept.

Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) in conjunction with National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has recently determined to start the improvement of lakes and also the 1st lake to wash within the town is Naik Talao. NMC had planned a rejuvenating project beneath that lakes like Futala and Naik talao are cleansed. Civic Chief Abhijeet Bangar throughout a press meet same “an elaborated Project Report (DPR) has been submitted by the officers of NEERI on that the NMC has taken a leap forward and have started acting on it”. It is found that a sewer main has a gap within the lake that is that the reason that the water of Naik talao has been dirty for thus several months. a call for participation was created by the civic body to NEERI for a higher arrange of overcoming the matter of waste matter line at the talao. Considering the problem NEERI has asked NMC to divert the waste matter water. Naik talao may be a well-known lake within the city; it’s additionally a lake that maintains the bottom water level of the town.