Eknath Khadse Smells a Rat in Mantralaya’s Pest Control Scheme, Demands Enquiry
On Thursday, Khadse alleged that the company awarded a contract for pest control in the state secretariat has claimed that it killed 3,19,400 rats in seven days.
Mumbai, March 23: In a shocking revelation, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and a minister in Maharashtra government Eknathrao Ganpatrao Khadse on Friday demanded an enquiry into a rat company given a contract to kill the rodents. On Thursday, Khadse alleged that the company awarded a contract for pest control in the state secretariat has claimed that it killed 3,19,400 rats in seven days.
He questioned as to how the company, which was given a contract to Kill 3,19,400 rats in the secretariat accomplished the task in mere seven days, while the BMC took two years to kill around six lakh rats in Mumbai.
Khadse told the Vidhan Sabha there was something fishy which needed an investigation to get to the rats playing hide and seek in government’s headquarters at Mantralaya, the state secretariat. It must be noted that the work order to a private company was given by the General Administration Department of the Maharashtra government, under Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Khadse said the government could have deployed ten cats to do the job instead of hiring a private firm, the former revenue minister said in a lighter vein.
To recall, the survey found that there were 3,19,400 rats in the secretariat and a work order was issued in this regard. According to the minister, about 45,628 rats a day were killed (around 31.68 rats every minute). As per reports by ANI, the minister demanded to know the technique used in this connection and also where did the dead bodies of the rats disappear. The Maharashtra government has assured the minister of a thorough probe into the matter.
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