Private agency to carry out delimitation survey in Jalandhar

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Jalandhar, June 15

Due to lack of staff in the Municipal Corporation, a private agency has been hired to carry out a survey for delimitation of wards in Jalandhar. The staff for the work will be provided by the agency now.

Notably, a week’s time was given by the head office to complete the process, but due to staff crunch, it was decided to outsource the employees.

The staff already working in the MC has other official work to do, which is why extra staff is needed, said a senior official. Sources said most of the employees, working with the MC, are already outsourced ones from the same agency.

When contacted, MC Commissioner Deepshikha Sharma confirmed that a private agency had been roped in after a letter was written to the head office in this regard.

“Also, it was said the work should get completed in a week. Now that a private company has been hired, it is expected that the work will start and finish soon. We are also working on the finances (funds to be paid to the company),” the MC Commissioner said.

While gathering block-wise information of the population, number of people belonging to SC and OBC categories will be mentioned. The whole process will be carried out according to the delimitation of wards of Municipal Corporation Order, 1995. While filling out the total number of population in the city, black pen will be used, whereas SC and OBC will be written in red and green pen, respectively.

Meeting in chandigarh on June 21

• A meeting regarding delimitation of the wards will be held in Chandigarh on June 21. A letter in this regard has been released by the Local Bodies Department Director to the Jalandhar Mayor, MC Commissioner, MLAs along with others and it is said a delimitation board had been constituted by the department to work on the process.
• It is also asked to include five members from the MC that will be helping the board in taking decisions in the delimitation process. Notably, the councillors from Congress, BJP and SAD will be the members. Now, it will be interesting to see who from every party get a chance to be selected as the members.
• Reportedly, every councillor is trying his best to see his name in the five-member list. Three from Congress and one each from BJP and Akali Dal will be a part of the list.