Chandigarh municipal commissioner slaps showcause notice on contractor, engineers for dereliction of duty
A day after certain negligence was detected at the site of the construction of a road gully in Sector 21, Chandigarh, Anindita Mitra, commissioner of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, on Friday served a show-cause notice under Rule 10 of Punjab Civil Service (Punishment and Appeals) Rules, 1970 to the sub-divisional engineer and junior engineer, Public Health Division of the civic body for dereliction of duty.
During an inspection on Thursday, it was noticed that the work on the construction of a road gully in Sector 21, Chandigarh, was being carried out by M/s Vakeel Yadav (contractor) without any proper signages. The contractor had left the dug-up road without putting any kind of signboards around the area for cautioning the general public, thereby endangering their lives.
