Parking slots allotment scam in Jammu; Over Rs 99 lakh loss to JMC in last 11 months

Mayor constituting 5-member panel to hold inquiry

VIVEK SHARMA

JAMMU: Detecting a major scandal of allotment of 20 parking slots in Jammu City, the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) Mayor Rajinder Sharma has decided to constitute a panel on Saturday of five JMC Corporators along with technical experts from PWD and finance department to fix the responsibility of the concerned officers of JMC and consequently recommend ACB to book these officers involved in this major scandal wherein the JMC, in last 11 months, suffered loss of whopping Rs 99 lakh.
When contacted, Mayor Rajinder Sharma said, “I have told the government that I am proceeding with a detailed inquiry along with ACB probe to punish those in JMC who manipulated the official records to favour the blue eyed contractors.”
From 20 parking slots, JMC earned only Rs 0ne lakh in 11 months whiles the contractor’s gain was over Rs 24 lakh. The total amount which JMC could have collected from Parking slots must have been over Rs one crore in same period, revealed Mayor Rajinder Sharma, adding, ” A major loss of Rs 99 lakh to the JMC exchequer is loss of general public and those JMC senior officers involved in it will not be spared irrespective of their political affiliations.”
“With this Rs one Crore we have repaired so many lanes and drains in the City, the Mayor said adding, “Every day we receive numerous complaints and without funds nothing can be constructed or renovated.”
“I have even spoken to the Chief Secretary and apprised him about this major scandal,” Mayor Rajinder Sharma said. A five-member panel from Corporaters will be asked to submit its report in one week’s time so that JMC’s further revenue loss can be averted and the corrupts can be booked.
Sources said that the newly elected Jammu Mayor Rajinder Sharma is conducting many preliminary inquiries into the works allotted by JMC, in last one year, without meeting any codal formalities.