GCC Commissioner writes to City Police to probe suspected bank fraud involving private contractors who maintain parks

The Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner J. Kumaragurubaran has written to Chennai City Police to analyse a suspected fraud involving contractors who allegedly created fake slope documents to get bills settled from the civic bureau without paying wages for workers successful parks successful 3 zones.

Sources said portion the GCC received slope transaction documents from the contractors showing workers received salaries for maintaining parks, galore workers really did not person salaries successful their slope accounts.

Councillors successful assorted wards of Manali, Perungudi and Sholinganallur zones person complained astir non-payment of salaries for parkland workers for respective months. Most of these workers beryllium to socially weaker sections.

After GCC officials examined the slope transaction documents submitted by definite contractors to get outgo for bills for parkland maintenance, they recovered the documents were tampered to amusement arsenic if salaries were paid to the workers successful these zones.

This year, the GCC had invited bids successful packages from backstage agencies for operational and attraction enactment for 781 parks crossed the 15 zones. For measure outgo it mandated backstage contractors to taxable slope documents arsenic impervious of salaries being paid connected clip to the parkland workers. However, councillors complained astir assorted issues pertaining to cleaning of the parks, owing to non-payment of salaries to the workers successful galore parks for 3 months.

According to a study submitted past week by the task absorption advisor to the Parks Department, 1 of the contractors had submitted fake documents of slope transactions to amusement arsenic if the workers successful Manali, Perungudi and Sholinganallur received salaries successful August, September and October. The workers are paid Rs.19994 per month, portion supervisors get Rs.22460 per period and electricians/pump operators get Rs.29943 according to the tender conditions.

Federation of North Chennai Residents Welfare Association president T.K.Shanmugham said the residents person complained astir mediocre show of conservancy workers successful GCC parks.

“We request amended attraction of parks and fortify information aboriginal successful the morning,” helium said.

GCC officials said they are assessing the interaction of the suspected slope fraud and volition instrumentality enactment against those liable for non-payment of salaries to workers.