ULHASNAGAR: Despite the opposition of ruling party's three MLAs and opposition leaders, the contract for repairing the water pipeline by the local Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC), which initially was fixed for Rs 10 crore later reached Rs 25 crore. Now, UMC has a plan to give the same work to one contractor for Rs 88 crore for the whole five years.
Over the same issue, small contractors that include 150 educated unemployed engineers and labor organizations in Ulhasnagar city have started a hunger strike for the last three days in front of the municipal headquarters due to the livelihood issues.
The small contractors working for many years with the water department said if UMC is successful into awarding contract to single contractor, then they will become unemployed.
