Mumbai: After Flak for the cost of a 2-crore RS a contract a year to manage its social media account, BMC said the memo of the current social media management contract and appointed a new agent with a fresh floating tender.
BMC said he had started making fresh soft.
Despite receiving revenue, BMC gave a contract worth Rs 5.9 Crore to Infotech S2 to manage 34 Twitter handles from July 2019 to July 2022, without inviting tenders.
Mlaas and Canporator have slammed BMC to spend around Rs 2 Crore on Twitter and accuse no technical analysis to measure the range and impact of @mybmc, and 34 handling other official BMCs, many of which are not verified.
“The three-year contract was given based on Section 72 (3) Mumbai Municipal Corporation (MMC) acting through Maharashtra IT Corporation to the Kekheruan Agency.
The IT department appoints a consultant to measure the scope of work today together with the Public Relations Department.
Based on the requirements of this human resource , Estimates are being prepared for a one-year contract, “City Commissioner Deputy (Disaster Management) Prabhat Rahangdale in a written reply to MLA and Corporator Rais Shaikh.
“Once the new contractor is appointed, the existing contract will be closed before menstruation ends.
BMC has so far payed Rs 2.85 Crore to Maha It Corporation to work from July 2019 to February 2021,” said Rahangdale.
While Mumbai police, one of the first government institutions to join Twitter to overcome complaints of citizens, only have one Twitter account, @MumbaiPolice, BMC established 34 handles, which increases costs, Shaikh said.
Corporators and groups of residents say it has so many non-verified handles creating confusion and pose a security threat, because many fake handles have been established.
BJP Corporator Vinod Mishra said BMC must only have one handle.