Corporators sit-in against passing of revised budget

ALLAHABAD: The corporators of Allahabad Municipal Corporation continued their sit-in on Monday in the Sadan Hall to protest against the passing of revised budget of Jal Sansthan without any discussion. The agitating corporators also burnt an effigy of mayor on AMC campus.
Corporator Anand Ghidiyal said various provisions incorporated in the budget of Jal Sansthan department should have been laid before the house and discussed.But mayor Jitendra Nath Singh passed the revised budget in a huff without any discussion in the house, he added.
Corporator Uttam Kumar said though the provision of revised budget of AMC was discussed on Saturday but the budget of Jal Sansthan was not kept on the floor of the House. He said the mayor has violated the provisions of Section 2 of Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959.
The corporators who staged sit in included Shiv Sewak Singh, Uttam Kumar, Kamlesh Singh, Umesh Dwivedi, Kusum Lata Gupta, Shiva Tripathi, Mohd Azad, Mohd Muslim, Akhilesh Singh, Rajesh Kushwaha and others.
Meanwhile, mayor Jitendra Nath Singh said copies of the revised budget of Jal Sansthan were distributed to the corporators but due to pandemonium some corporators could not get it. He added that if corporators have reservations on certain issues, it would be incorporated in the main budget of Jal Sansthan.