Y2K bug haunts PCMC

PUNE, NOV 21: Faced with the prospect of Y2K problem in the computerisation work of the octroi department, the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has warned the company which undertook the turn-key project that the payment of the project fees will be stopped if the company did not take measures to solve it.

PCMC had entered into an agreement with CMC Limited for the computerisation project of all its 19 octroi posts and also setting up of a central monitoring system of the octroi work. The project work began in August 1998 and is to be completed in a period of two years. The PCMC will be spending Rs 2.26 crore for the computerisation work. Municipal commissioner B I Nagrale said that some of the machines provided by the company were not Y2K compliant and therefore the corporation demanded that the company should complete the project without any defects.

At a meeting with the company officials today, Nagrale warned that the PCMC would not release the payment to the company if the problems in the system were not solved in time.