With a scarcity of safety employees, Pune Municipal Company has determined to rent a personal company to offer safety to numerous civic buildings and services throughout the town at an expenditure of round Rs 150 crore.
“The PMC has solely 350 safety guards of the 650 posts within the civic physique. Nevertheless, there’s a want for extra safety guards for the civic physique. Within the earlier 12 months, 1,565 safety guards had been employed by means of personal businesses,” mentioned Rakesh Vitkar, chief safety officer.
Safety guards are deputed in shifts and at numerous places, together with the civic important constructing, ward places of work, hospitals, colleges, gardens, crematoriums and auditoriums.
The PMC earlier employed the companies of a personal safety company for a contract of 1 12 months, however this time, will probably be for 3 years, Vitkar mentioned, including that the method to rent an company yearly takes loads of time.
“This 12 months the PMC needed to prolong the one 12 months contract of the personal safety company by three months as no new company was appointed. To keep away from this, a 3 12 months contract is being deliberate at an expenditure of Rs 150 crore,” he mentioned.
