Nagpur: Taking the issue of harassment and non-clearance of NMC contractors’ bills, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation Contractors’ Welfare Association has knocked doors of Mayor Pravin Datke and Municipal Commissioner Shravan Hardikar specifically against Mahal Zone Junior Engineer Arun Warambhe.
The Contractors’ Association in its complaints dashed to the Mayor and Municipal Commissioner stated that the NMC engineers take unexplainable period of time in preparing their bills but the Junior Engineer of Mahal Zone Arun Warambhe has crossed all the limits. “The Jnior Engineer Warambhe has not prepared bills of contractors since the past 3-4 years.
There are not one or two contractors but many who have been deprived of bill amounts due to lethargic attitude of the Junior Engineer. Warambhe has a distinct record of such dubious practice of delaying bills. For obvious reasons, some contractors hesitate to dare the Junior Engineer but some have decided to expose him in no uncertain terms,” said the complaints.
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation Contractors’ Welfare Association has further said that more and more contractors are raising the issue of their harassment at the hands of Junior Engineer Warambhe and even named the contractors such as Vilas Mudholkar, Prakash Kalambe, Sanjay Kubde and N U Kalambe among others who have come forward in exposing Warambhe.
The Association said that “considering the poor financial condition of NMC the contractors are not hitting the streets nor stalling the development works. But the non-clearance of contractors’ bills add hardship to them and also affects other works. The NMC works are thus get delayed and the citizens have to bear the brunt,” said the Contractors’ Association and requested the Mayor Datke and Municipal Commissioner to initiate stern action against Junior Engineer Arun Warambhe and also improve the system.
