Civic body cites paucity of funds reason for unpaid bills to protesting contractors

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Municipal Contractors staging a protestation  astatine  the Vizianagaram Municipal Corporation connected  Tuesday.

Municipal Contractors staging a protestation astatine the Vizianagaram Municipal Corporation connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT

The Vizianagaram Municipal Corporators Contractors Welfare Association president Bandaru Bangaraju Raju, honorary president M. Linga Rao, P. Ashok, Secretary R. Rajkumar, and different members connected Tuesday vowed to intensify their protests if the corp failed to wide their pending bills wrong a week.

Along with State of Andhra Pradesh Building Contractors Association president S. Vijaya Kumar, they met elder Corporation officials and explained their grievances regarding the delays successful clearing pending bills of astir ₹20 crores.

The officials reportedly told them that paucity of funds was the main crushed for the hold of payments from the civic body.

Later, speaking to media, Mr. S. Vijaya Kumar said that contractors volition beryllium incapable to get loans from banks if the corp does not wide the existing indebtedness arsenic per the clip schedule. The relation leaders decided to chalk retired further enactment program successful a mates of days if the corp officials failed to respond to their grievances and petitions.

Published - November 04, 2025 08:43 p.m. IST

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