Jalandhar, December 3 A meeting of the Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) will be held at the Municipal Corporation office here on December 6. Among other items, the major agenda will include the laying of storm sewer system from Doaba Chowk to Kala Sanghian Drain. In the last meeting that was held on November 21, works worth around Rs 3 crore were cleared. Work on the installation of 10 tube wells by Bhagwat Engineers and Contractors was declared pending by Mayor Jagdish Raja. The Mayor has been mulling action against companies which are failing to complete their works on time. Two such cases were taken up during the meeting. Works of two roads, sewerage and three tube wells, worth about Rs 3 crore, were passed during the F&CC meeting. While there was a proposal for 17 tube wells, of these only seven were passed during the meeting. Woks on tube wells at Indira Park, Bank Colony, Gurunankpura West, Prithvi Nagar, Shiv Vihar, Tagore Nagar, Ramamandi, Bhatra Mohalla, Urban Estate, Phase-2, and Bindi Ghodi Wala Park (Islamabad) have been kept pending. Works worth Rs 53 lakh (for the construction of two roads) and Rs 99 lakh (for super suction machines) were cleared. Sewerage cleaning works amounting to Rs 99 lakh (from Model Town to Mata Rani Chowk worth Rs 89.34 lakh and from Surya Enclave to JC Resort worth Rs 9.54 lakh) were also cleared. Tenders (applied for the third time) for Gulab Devi Road (Rs 28.5 lakh) and Leather Complex Road (also for the third time) for Rs 24.24 lakh were also approved.

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