Outsourcing seems to be the new mantra for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Call it an effort to get better results, or neglecting its own parks and garden department by giving work of landscaping to a private contractor.
This is not the sole example of outsourcing. The AMC has also outsourced the work to manage manpower at civic centres and appointed a private company for the purpose. Both the works were sanctioned in the standing committee on Friday.
The AMC has been outsourcing landscaping work for bigger projects like BRTS and Sabarmati Riverfront Development, which is understandable, but landscaping of a smaller patch at the sports complex at Memco by its own parks and gardens department could have saved the AMC Rs31 lakh.
Standing committee chairperson Asit Vora said it was an effort to complete work faster and get the best of landscaping. They say, he said, expertise is needed for landscaping which is not available with the civic body. Interestingly, all gardens managed by the civic body have been developed by its own parks and gardens department.
In another move, the work to manage manpower at the civic body’s civic centres has been outsourced to a private contractor. The move comes after the civic body’s plan to come up with ward-wise civic centres so that citizens can avail service of payment of taxes etc. from their door step.
To manage civic centres the civic body has distributed work to bidders. “Each bidder would take care of two civic centres for a period of one year,” said Vora. It will pay Rs25.4 lakh to each bidder for managing manpower at the civic centres.
Source:http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_civic-body-in-ahmedabad-on-an-outsourcing-spree_1364739
