R&B chairman seeks explanation for approved 'rejected' work

The Road and Building committee chairman has sought an explanation from the Deputy Municipal Commissioner Mukesh Gadhavi, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), on Monday over why the precast wall work rejected by the R&B committee got introduced and approved in the standing committee.

Meanwhile, the Road and Building committee chairman Jatin Patel had rejected the precast wall (fencing for protection of AMC's open plots) work for North Zone that was approved in the standing committee after bypassing the R&B's earlier order.

"There are some open plots under Town Planning (TP) scheme number 1, 2, 70, 71, 75, 109 and 121, for which a proposal was put for precast wall for protection before my committee. We had rejected that and demanded brick and mortar walls," Jatin Patel said.

He added, "The engineering department of the north zone had introduced the work bypassing our committee, and proposed the matter in the standing committee as an urgent one in October. Interestingly, the work in the road committee was of Rs24 lakh for seven town planning schemes' open plot, but when it was approved in the standing committee, it was of Rs84 lakh for five town planning schemes' open plots.'

He said he has written a letter to the deputy municipal commissioner seeking an explanation.