News Desk:
GMC super sucker to be operated by private companies. The incident has exposed the failure of the GMC and departmental minister Ashok Singhal . Private companies will do what government departments cannot do. The city government has spent Rs 25 crore from the Guwahati Smart City Limited fund to purchase 10 super suckers for the Guwahati Municipal Corporation to prevent artificial floods in the city . The government also purchased two dump tankers for each super sucker.
Each Super Sucker costs Rs 1 lakh each for daily use . However, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) did not get promising results from this sophisticated device . Therefore, it is a huge financial burden for the municipal authorities.There is a lack of trained personnel in the Yanshala branch of Bashishta.
The GMC has also failed to pay the salaries of the employees who operated the super suckers for months . The GMC has failed to operate the 10 super suckers brought for garbage disposal from Guwahati sewers and is going to hand over the operation and maintenance to private companies.
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