CEO, mayor at loggerheads again

JAIPUR: The uneven deployment of contract sanitation workers at various wards in the city has again put Jaipur mayor and chief executive officer (CEO), Jaipur Municipal Corporation ( JMC) at loggerheads.
For last one year some councillors of BJP and Congress had been demanding equal distribution of sanitation workers on contract. On Tuesday when CEO Rajesh Yadav gave a nod to the rational deployment of the workers, mayor Jyoti Khandelwal was not very impressed.
Khandelwal said, "Many councillors are complaining that if equal distribution system is adopted, contracted sanitation workers from their wards will be removed. The CEO should first ensure proper sanitation in every ward before implementing the new move."
This proposal was already with the mayor but she did not take it up saying that need for a sanitation worker varies from ward to ward in the city, thus one cannot go with an equal number of staff in every ward.
However, even councillors have mixed reaction for the equal distribution of contracted sanitation workers. A Congress councillor said, "In my ward there are merely six contracted sanitation employers while in many of the wards there are at least 16 beats. The newly introduced system will get equal number of beats which is not feasible. Distribution and deployment of sanitation workers should be according to the density of a particular area. I think the idea of rationalisation will not work and will create problems."
Others feel that population is not the criteria and there should be equal distribution of beat. Om Gujjar, BJP councillor, said, "I have no beat in my wards , the new system will be good."