The Municipal Corporation’s Finance and Contracts Committee (F&CC) is scheduled to meet on Monday to consider 187 agenda items, a significant number of which relate to development works such as road repairs, replacement of street tiles, installation of tubewells and streetlights across the city.
Senior deputy mayor Rakesh Prashar said the committee was holding meetings in quick succession to clear development projects that had remained pending for around three months as the F&CC could not convene during the period.
The prolonged gap was caused by a legal dispute over the nomination of two councillors to the F&CC. The court subsequently overturned the nominations and directed the municipal corporation to hold a fresh election. The committee had last met on June 24 before its September 5 meeting. In July, the mayor had nominated the sons of two sitting legislators to the committee, a move challenged by Congress councillor from Ward 26 Gaurav Bhatti in the Punjab and Haryana high court. The election was held on August 29, following which two councillors were elected by the House to the committee.
