Standing panel to give work priority list to AMC chief

Ahmedabad: AMC councillors attending the standing committee meeting alleged that the administrative wing was not taking up the matter raised by them on an urgent basis. Some councillors raised the matter before the municipal commissioner Mukesh Kumar on Thursday.

When asked, standing committee chairman Amul Bhatt said that the councillors want the work in their areas be taken up on a priority basis. “AMC office-bearers — mayor Bijal Patel, leader of BJP in corporation Amit Shah, me, and deputy mayor Dinesh Makwana — will hold regular meetings with the commissioner and will give him a list of work which are to be taken up on priority,” he said.

A senior officer said that with civic body elections scheduled to be held later this year, the councillors have been pressing for development works in their areas be taken up on priority. He said Covid-19 pandemic has hit the resources and grants from the government are not being released on a regular basis.

In such a scenario, it becomes difficult to accept all demands of the councillors, the official added.

In the past also, standing committee members had complained that some of the deputy municipal commissioners were not answering to their calls. Even when Vijay Nehra was municipal commissioner such complaints were made and some of the councillors wrote to the BJP high command.