Aiada Bhavan, where the Adityapur Municipal Council meeting would be held. Picture by Bhola Prasad

Jamshedpur, April 24: The newly constituted Adityapur Municipal Council would hold its maiden meeting tomorrow.

Scheduled to begin at Adityapur Industrial Area Development Authority (Aiada) Bhavan from 11am, the meeting is expected to take up various issues.

Adityapur Municipal Council’s executive officer Bhavanand Mandal said that council chairman Rita Srivastava and vice-chairman Purendra Narayan Singh would preside over the meeting and all 32 ward commissioners would attend it.

“Ever since the council was set up, I have received numerous requests and recommendations from the ward commissioners. All ward commissioners want their areas cleaned first. But how can this possible when the number of staff at the disposal of Adityapur Municipal Council is very limited,” said the executive officer.

Revealing about the existing manpower, Mandal said the council has at present 27 staff, inclusive of the ones designated for cleaning work. “For a civic body like Adityapur Municipal Council, where 32 wards exist, ideally there must be 671 staff for making the council work effectively.”

“Functionaries of the regional centre for urban and environmental studies, Lucknow, in its study observed that a municipal council of the stature of Adityapur municipal council would require a 671-strong staff force,” Mandal said. He said as the council area was vast, it would require hundreds of conservancy workers apart from plumbers, electricians and general staff.

When asked, Ramanand Singh, a resident of Adityapur, told The Telegraph: “I am looking forward for the maiden meeting of Adityapur Municipal Council following which the civic body would actually begin to work. I would comment on the council and its effectiveness at least a week after tomorrow’s meeting.”

Singh said he was not expecting good results from the council as majority of those elected to the council, including the office-bearers, are behaving like big politicians. “The council functionaries are nowhere spotted now. But we will judge them from the work that can begin after the meeting,” said Singh, an ardent supporter of the civic body election.