Former leader of opposition Badruddin Shaikh has alleged a scam of Rs 7 crore involving dustbin purchase in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The allegations surfaced after the civic body announced to make the city free of community dustbins. There are around 1,200 dustbins across Ahmedabad, which the AMC says will be cleared by October 2.
Shaikh alleged that despite they being aware of the decision of making city bin-free, the authority purchased them only a few weeks before making the announcement.
"AMC's decision is stupid. Even places like the USA keeps bins on the roads. On what basis are they imposing this new rule?" said Shaikh.
"Just a few weeks ago, they have purchased thousand of dustbins worth Rs7 crore. Now, they are saying there'd be no containers and dustbins on roads. Were they fools before they were spending the money or making others fools," Shaikh further said, adding he is sensing an organized scam in this.
Asserting the new bins would be scrapped, he said, "They would be scrapped as they are not in use. Everybody knows that whenever there's any such deal, a part of the money goes to officials and some of the politicians. But, in this case, they have syphoned off the entire money," he added.
Shaikh said the AMC had given a boost to the door-to-door garbage collection facility by bringing in 900 vehicles. And all this happened just before this deal was struck, he said. The civic body used to spend Rs1,600 on every trip of the garbage collection vehicle from the work site to the dump yard and the workers used to get Rs200 a day.
Also, the garbage collection rate has been raised from Rs 100 crore to Rs 300 crore.
KNOW THE PRO
Former LoP Badriudin Shaikh alleged that despite they being aware of the decision of making city bin-free, the authority purchased them only a few weeks before making the announcement.
