Chandigarh, March 25 -- Former Union cabinet minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has said the compulsion of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation to transfer the repair work of the sector-dividing V-3 roads (that intersect arterial V-2 roads) to the Chandigarh administration portends ill for the future of the civic body.

Bansal alleged that the denial of the due share of UT funds to the municipal corporation as per the recommendations of the Delhi Finance Commission, which has thrown the civic body in the throes of a severe financial crisis, seems to be an insidious plan of the BJP-led Union government to emaciate the vital 3rd tier of the government. The present move may somewhat ease its financial burden but will lead to the end of the empowere...