GURGAON: Days after Chief Secretary TVSN Prasad declared a state of emergency for solid waste management in the city, an FIR has been registered against a private agency for cleaning roads in parts of the city and A contract has been awarded to ensure cleanliness. In his complaint to the police, MCG senior sanitary inspector Devendra Kumar accused the private firm of neglecting its responsibilities in cleaning designated areas or providing effective services as per its contract with the corporation. The corporation had awarded the contract to the firm for road cleaning, drain cleaning and brush removal in Zones 1A and 2B last August. Additionally, the company failed to deploy sufficient manpower and resources to carry out the cleanup operations effectively, leading to its inefficiency. Maintain cleanliness in assigned zones, the complaint said. According to the civic body, the agency is not dumping garbage even after manual sweeping at specified areas, which is also a violation of the agreement. There are piles of garbage in the areas under the agency's jurisdiction for sweeping, and the drains are also blocked with garbage,” said an MCG official. The case was on Tuesday C was booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 336 (endangering lives), 278 (endangering the environment to health), 270 (life (regarding spreading dangerous disease), 269 (reckless risk of spreading infection), 268 (negligence and public safety), 188 (disobedience to lawful order of public servant) and 120 (design to commit offence) in Sector 14 police station. Concealment punishable by imprisonment).
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