Purchase of dog vans, solar panels approved by Chandigarh MC’s finance & contract committee

Chandigarh MC’s finance and contract committee meeting was chaired by mayor Sarabjit Kaur Dhillon on Monday

Looking to strengthen the animal birth-control programme, the municipal corporation (MC) is set to upgrade machinery and infrastructure in the sterilisation programme.

Chandigarh MC’s finance & contract committee meet approved budgets for dog vans, solar panel and other projects. (HT File)

An agenda item regarding the purchase of two dog vans at a cost of ₹25 lakh was approved during a meeting of the MC’s finance & contract committee (F&CC) held here on Monday, under the chairmanship of mayor Sarabjit Kaur Dhillon.

The meeting was also attended by the MC commissioner Anindita Mitra and other members of the committee.

Committee members also discussed ways to save electricity charges and asked concerned officers to explore the feasibility of installing solar panels in all the MC-owned buildings.

The MC’s apex committee also approved the rough cost estimates for the strengthening of the social welfare department system at various locations in Sector 17, Chandigarh at an estimated cost of ₹19.12 lakh and the work of development of an additional pocket of Leisure valley, behind House No 3464 to 3487, Sector 23, at an estimated cost of ₹6.82 lakh.

Construction of a toe wall under the existing MS flat railing in parks of Industrial Area Phase-I and replacement of old or broken 6” (160mm) pipeline with 6” (160mm) HDPE pipe in Garden of Annuals Sector 44, at estimated costs of ₹7.16 lakh and ₹12.31 lakh were also sanctioned.

Committee members approved ground rent exemption to Madhya Pradesh Silk Federation at the circus-cum-exhibition ground Sector 17.

They also gave a green signal to a rough cost estimate for providing and laying of 700mm pipes along Sector 39’s forest area and 450mm at Pocket–B, Sector 38 West at ₹49.35 lakh.