Ashta (Madhya Pradesh): The civic body has enough staff to install number plates on houses, but the department has allegedly engaged a contractor to do the work in Ashta city.
The Nagar Palika is also surveying the number of houses for mutation. According to reports, the contractors are taking Rs 50 from each house owner to install number plates.
There are allegations that the civic body is installing the number plates on houses in all 18 wards in Ashta city through a private agency by floating a tender.
Some residents alleged that the contractors were carelessly doing the work and that the number plates they were installing did not match with the original numbers of the houses mentioned in registry papers.
The purpose is to identify the houses, said official sources. A resident, Ramesh Chandra Gupta, said the contractor was charging Rs 50 from each house to put the number plates.
On the other hand, revenue inspector of the civic body Manohar Singh Javriya said the mutation of only 14,053 houses had been done.
The Nagar Palika is surveying those houses which have been built without permission to complete the mutation work, he said. The civic body has allowed its contractor Akash Gautam to install number plates on the houses in 18 wards in Ashta city, Jarvariya said.
ID numbers are also being written so that the civic body knows how many houses are there in the city, he said. Afterwards, notices will be served on the house owners to complete the mutation work, he said.
Once the survey is over, the contractor will submit a list of houses to the civic body, he said. When the issue was put up before chief municipal officer of Nagar Palika Vinod Prajapati, he said he had no information about the number plates. He said he had sought the files and would take action accordingly.
