In what comes as a dismay, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to temporarily withdraw the installation of 5,000 sanitary pad vending machines in public toilets across mumbai.
The civic body has decided to put the contract, which was worth INR 42 crore, on hold.
This came after Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Anil Parab, who had alleged corruption in the procurement of machines, on Thursday, August 10, met BMC administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal.
Parab had alleged that the BMC had given contracts to install sanitary pad vending machines with incinerators in 5,000 public toilets across the city. However, there are no 5,000 BMC-run public toilets in Mumbai. Parab had also alleged that despite the cost of a vending machine being INR 40,000 as per the GeM portal, each machine is being procured at a cost of INR 76,528 and there is corruption in the procurement.
The meeting took place days after Parab moved a breach of privilege motion in the legislative council during the recent monsoon session against Chahal for not giving him time to meet and discuss the issue of alleged scam in procurement of sanitary napkin vending machines in BMC toilets which he has been raising.
After the meeting, Parab told media that he was assured by Chahal that no further work orders to procure the machines would be given till the satisfactory technical report on the performance of the 200 machines already installed in the BMC run public toilets is received.
Parab, however, demanded total scrapping of the contract and alleged that even the 200 machines installed are not working as no contract has been given for procurement of sanitary pads.
On the other hand, Chahal told IE that the project has not been fully scrapped.
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