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Fourteen four-wheelers purchased by the Kochi Corporation successful Kerala much than a decennary agone for doorstep discarded postulation stay untraceable, making them unavailable for disposal done auction and preventing the civic assemblage from recouping immoderate revenue.
As per a study submitted by the mechanical technologist of the Corporation’s conveyance compartment connected November 1, retired of the 44 four-wheelers that are nary longer usable adjacent with maintenance, the determination of 14 could not beryllium identified.
The study recommended that 24 four-wheelers, excluding the six for which valuation has been received, 5 three-wheelers, and an SUV beryllium auctioned. The report, approved astatine the past assembly meeting, further stated that spares were nary longer disposable for the Italian-made four-wheelers, portion locally made spare parts did not lucifer either.
Health Standing Committee chairperson T.K. Asharaf said the missing vehicles were astir apt portion of a batch of 64 specified vehicles purchased good implicit a decennary ago. “When the contented of missing vehicles came up towards the extremity of 2015, a publication detailing the determination of the vehicles, implicit with pictures, was prepared. The drivers successful complaint of the vehicles were liable for their careless handling, arsenic they got paid careless of the information of the vehicles nether their care,” helium said.
The Left Democratic Front had raised the contented of the missing vehicles during the United Democratic Front’s word led by Soumini Jain from 2015 to 2020. M.G. Aristotle, UDF parliamentary enactment secretary, said wellness circles were asked to find and study the missing vehicles backmost then.
At that time, vehicles were purchased without an cognition and attraction clause. No ledger was maintained for tracking conveyance movement, and since the Corporation had nary workshop, vehicles that broke down were near astatine disposable spots. Even erstwhile sent for maintenance, the outdated strategy required bills to beryllium cleared lone aft support by the concern committee and the council, by which clip the vehicles would person developed caller problems from being unused for long.
“That strategy has present changed, arsenic vehicles are purchased with an cognition and attraction clause for 15 years. An technologist has besides been appointed to oversee the vehicles,” said Mr. Aristotle.
