Chandigarh: Councillors refuse to restore fuel limit for official staff cars
Friday’s Municipal Corporation’s general house meeting saw a standoff between councillors and civic body officials after an agenda to restore fuel limits for official staff cars was put forth. The councillors refused to pass the agenda and said they would only do so if they are also provided fuel to run their cars.
“Until councillors don’t get perks of fuel to run their vehicles for development work, we won’t allow revocation of the order of 20 per cent cut in fuel limit,” BJP councillor Kanwarjeet Ranak said. Other councillors nodded in agreement.
The cut in fuel limits was made for official staff cars to cut costs during the Covid-19 pandemic. On Friday, the matter was brought up for discussion but shot down by councillors, who brought up an unfulfilled promise made to them.
