Disputes between mayor and people's representatives over the contract of Bagmati in Chandrapur, Ramaulighat in Brindavan, Samanpurghat in Gadhimai, Lamahaghat in Gujra and Lalbakaiya river in Fatuwa Vijaypur.
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Last year, Brindavan Municipality Chief Vinod Prasad Kurmi arbitrarily excavated riverine material in the Bagmati river in an arbitrarily manner and the Deputy Chief Sangeeta Ram and ward presidents protested. After Mayor Kurmi ordered excavation in Amanat, Deputy Mayor and Ward Presidents dug against him. This time also the ward presidents are against the excavation.
City chief Kurmi has been protesting ever since the contract was awarded for Ramaulighat in Bagmati on August 23. Mayor Kurmi said that Shivshankar Nirman Seva Gaur-3 has won the contract for 21.1 million. Ward president Sikinder Patel protested that most of the people's representatives were not consulted while signing the contract. "We have protested because Mayor Kurmi has been awarding contracts for river excavation against the rules for years," he said.
Last year, when the contract was being prepared, after the opposition of the deputy chief and ward presidents, Mayor Kurmi was unable to award the contract and excavated river-related material in Amanat. To stop it, the people's representatives filed a complaint with the Divisional Forest Office and the Authority. But Mayor Kurmi has claimed that there is no irregularity in the contract for export of river products.
The then deputy chief of Fatuwa Vijaypur, Kanti Devi Sah, along with the then mayor Gopal Rai, went to the Lalbakaiya river and took away the keys of the excavator. On October 17, 2078, the municipality called for the contract of Botwa Ghat located in Lalbakaiya. Kirtipur's Om Gauri Shankar Infrastructure Pvt.
Despite the opposition of the people's representatives, excavation continued in the river. Mayor Gopal Rai was suspended after a case was filed against the authority for not filing the contract amount of the said river with the municipality. Then the people's representatives in Fatwa Vijaypur are not in favor of contracting the river products.
Lalbakaiya river contract has also been opposed. Due to the opposition of the people's representatives, there has been no contract for river products for two financial years. A ward president told that there are irregularities in river contracts. "We are not in favor of the contract," he said.
After the then Mayor Gopal Rai was suspended for awarding the contract for river goods, Acting Mayor Ambeya Khatun is not in favor of awarding the contract. "People's representative friends are all protesting, and how to get a contract in such a situation," she said, "Unable to get a contract, the internal revenue will be affected." By contracting river products, the municipality would have earned more than one and a half million annually. Since
, Lamaha Kholaghat of Gujra municipality has not been contracted for two years. Even in this municipality, the people's representatives are not in favor of internal contracting. Premshankar Yadav, the candidate for mayor of Brindavan Municipality, alleged that there is collusion between the contractor and the mayor in the contract of river goods. "We have directly seen how much irregularity happened when the Bagmati contract was awarded," he said.
