Mumbai: To keep a check on some ‘errant’ corporators, who remain absent for house meetings, some of the Brihamumbai municipal corporation (BMC) corporators have made a request that biometric attendance should be made compulsory for corporators too.
If the demand is accepted then biometric attendance will be made mandatory for corporators along with the civic employees.
BJP group leader Manoj Kotak said that biometric machines and close circuit television (CCTV) cameras should be installed on the doors of BMC house. “For registering attendance of corporators, a muster is kept outside the civic house. However, there are some corporators, who sign the muster and disappear without entering the house. They visit the civic body only for the sake of registering their attendance. Some of the corporators do not even visit the civic headquarters,” Mr Kotak said.
BMC chief Ajoy Mehta said the decision should be taken by the party group leaders for the implementation of biometric machines and CCTVs. “Instead of civic =administration, it’s the group leaders who should decide whether they want biometric system,” he said. “The biometric machines and CCTVs will ensure that corporators attend and take part in the proceedings of house,” Mr Mehta added.
