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Corporates ready to rescue city rotaries
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With corporate houses in the city already doing a commendable job looking after some of the roundabouts in the Northern sectors, Chandigarh Newsline spoke to a few of the company bigwigs to inquire whether they would be interested in sprucing up the South. Most of them were ready to adopt these rotaries though they were already parenting one or two of them, spending around Rs 1 lakh a year on their maintenance besides paying for the initial costs of dolling them up.
Among them was Spice. Its Managing Director Vinod Sahni said: ``Even though we look after one roundabout in Mohali, we are keen to adopt more since we are committed to maintaining the city's beauty.'' He added that it would also add to their brand value.
Offering to tend even five more roundabouts besides its present one, CII's senior director Piyush Bahl said the industry is very keen on working for any social cause. The Administration and the MC, he felt, should seek more help from the industry in this regard. Atul Gupta of Pugmarks also sounded very enthusiastic about rescuing a derelict rotary. He said though he didn't know the details of the scheme properly, he would certainly like to take up this proposal.
Echoing him, Vijay Kaul, HFCL's chief in the city, said: "We don't mind contributing our mite to the city's beauty by doing such a thing, but I hope the local authorities will make the commercial terms more practical and flexible."
Local Coca Cola franchise Jaspal Kandhari also spoke in the same vein, saying: ``The roundabout we were tending to earlier has been razed to make way for traffic lights, we are ready to sponsor another depending on the location.''
Hot Millions owner Col A.B. Singh (retd) was also keen on participating in this plan though he felt the MC should give a sponsor more than two years to beautify a roundabout. Vice-president of Ranbaxy, Dr Naresh said he would take up the matter with his corporate office in Delhi and work out the details.
SAB Infotech director Sandeep Sharma also agreed to take up this cause, saying: ``We are willing to take up the project and work out the details.'' Lions Club district governor N K Grover too was not averse to taking responsibility for a rotary, but said: ``First, we would have to discuss the details and take everyone into confidence.'' Rotary International's former president, however, said the club is more into community service than beautification drives. But he was quick to add: ``We plan to broaden our sphere of action to include more community oriented programmes.''
Reacting to the willingness shown by private companies, Mayor Raj Kumar Goyal said he was open to any offer to beautify the city. Municipal Commissioner M.P. Singh also expressed his keenness to hand over the roundabouts to the interested parties on first-come-first-served basis. The fund-starved MC lets out rotaries to sponsors for two years initially, during which the latter is allowed to put up its logo, etc.
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