PMC OFFICES BOYCOTTED BY ELECTED BODY OF COUNCILLORS

PONDA: Sources in the Ponda Municipal Council (PMC), informed that the elected councillors, including the chairperson, Mr Kishore Naik, have boycotted the offices of the PMC, since the last ten days, reportedly over the controversy of sopo tender. This has led to tremendous hardships caused to the local public.

It was informed that there was a row between the chief officer of the PMC elected councillors over the awarding of the sopo tender. While the CO said that the sopo auctioning tender was undertaken as per the tenets of the act, the councillors claim that they were not taken into confidence while the formalities were being completed.

The former chairperson, Mr Sanjay Manu Naik, confirmed that the councillors from the ruling panel did not go to the office over the last ten days. He also said that whatever needed to be done for the citizens, was done over the phone, thereby avoiding inconvenience to the public, he added.

He said a special council meeting is fixed for Monday to discuss the sopo issue in toto besides discussion on the pre-monsoon works.  The local public however has claimed that the absence of the councillors at the PMC offices has put them to various hardships and inconveniences.