One year after diesel scam, BMC yet to mend its ways

Bhopal | Wednesday | 16th January, 2019

Summary:

It includes installation of CCTV surveillance and weigh bridge for BMC vehicles carrying garbage.The diesel scam came to light in October 2017, after evaluation of BMC vehicles movements (installed with GPS trackers) and calculation of diesel consumption, actual over claimed. BMC diesel consumption has increased from 21 tankers (18,000 litres each) to 30 tankers a month.The shocker of BMC report highlights that directions of former civic body commissioners were ignored. Deviations caught by GPS tracking and zonal and area officials were found to be implicated in the scam.The report also reports a gap of few weeks where GPS tracking was offline. BMC officials did not come on record when contacted.Diesel consumption for a period of about 8 month has been evaluated in the report. BHOPAL: Nearly a year on since Bhopal Municipal Corporation BMC ) diesel scam came to light, there has been no change in the civic body functioning, cites a new report on diesel utilisation between May to December 2018.The report states that the target of achieving diesel consumption and savings of 50,000 litre per month can be met, if set protocol is strictly adhered with..