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This time corporators to handover only SIMs back to BMC but not laptops and mobiles
- by Webdesk
- 14 Dec 2016
The official numbers of the elected corporators have been taken back by the civic body and thereby from Thursday onwards, Mumbaikars will now not be able to reach their elected representatives on their official mobile numbers. This is done as per the Election Commission’s code of conduct wherein the numbers given to corporators by the civic body needs to be handed back over 100 days before the elections.
Every corporator is given a mobile phone, a SIM card, and a laptop by the BMC when he is elected to office. When his term is about to get over, he has to return the gadgets back to the BMC. However, this year the civic body has decided to not take back the mobile phones or the laptops from corporators, as they have fallen out of their ‘warranty period’.
A civic official said, “The laptops came with a five-year warranty period. Now that five years are up, the gadgets cannot be handed over to new corporators who will be elected to office after the 2017 elections. The BMC would have to collect them it will generate that much e-waste.”
However, the civic body will erase data from all hard disks of the corporators’ laptops and return it to them within a short period. It does not want to take any chances with confidential data remaining with a person who may or may not get re-elected to the BMC.
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