Austerity drive: NDMC to cut expenses on flower decoration

The cash-strapped NDMC has now resorted to austerity measure, with its standing committee today announcing to cut expenditure on flower decoration in the rooms of officials and elected representatives.
"The decoration of flowers in the rooms of officials and elected representatives daily cost Rs 8,000 amounting to Rs 12 lakh per annum to the corporation.
"These flower vases are kept in almost all rooms of senior officials and elected members at the Civic Centre (NDMC HQ) as well as the zonal offices. The total amount saved would be Rs 24 lakh per annum by this measure," Standing Committee Chairman Mohan Bhardwaj today said.

He was speaking during the meeting of the Standing Committee of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) at the Civic Centre here.
"All head of departments have been directed to identify such measures through which money can be saved and utilised in a better way. Further measures are being taken to improve the sources of revenue for the corporation," he said.
The civic body, born in 2012 after the trifurcation of the erstwhile unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), has been running into losses since then.
"We have been debt-ridden since birth. And, we have about Rs 2000 crore due from the Delhi government including our global fund. We have not been paid our municipal reform fund either," North Delhi Mayor Ravinder Gupta has said.