chandigarh despite raising decadeold issues before punjab governor and chandigarh administrator banwarilal purohit the chandigarh municipal corporation did not receive any financial grant during his maiden visit to the mcs assembly hall on monday sources said it was purely bjps chandigarh leadership and mayors decision to invite purohit to the house and fellow bjp councillors and senior mc officials were not consulted due to which the mc could not put forth any significant demand on strengthening mcs financial condition or new projectsince coming to existence in 1994 chandigarh mc house has seen an ut administrator addressing the house only twice in 29year history the previous time in 2019 the then ut administrator v p singh badnore had given a gift of two petrol pumps to mc giving it major financial boost currently the mc is earning around rs 3 crore profit annually from these two ventures in his welcome speech city mayor anup gupta raised the issue of release of funds as per the 4th delhi finance commission recommendations and to provide basic facilities to the people living outside lal dora where construction has been termed illegal while 4th delhi finance commission recommendation is over a decadeold matter which is pending with central government different aspects of the areas outside the lal dora are with ut administration the mayor counted mc works mainly related to garbage processing and removal of garbage dump at daddumajra he also demanded all roads and horticulture department to be brought under mc which are currently divided between the mc and ut engineering departments the administrator advised municipal councillors of all the parties to remain united while working for the citizens of chandigarh who elected them to serve people of the city i remained in public life for long therefore i know the problems of the people by working together the democracy will strengthen and thus the bitterness will go away if you will work with dedication you all will become the darling of the people everybody has weaknesses but work hard selflessly all wards should be developed whether of opposition or of ruling party therefore should not be any discrimination in the developmental works purohit said