Chandigarh, Aug. 8 -- Amid furore over a Rs.227-crore table agenda passed without discussion during the July 31 municipal corporation (MC) General House meeting, MC commissioner Amit Kumar, has ordered a fact-finding report into the matter.

The agenda, related to the proposed replacement of old water pipelines from Kajauli water works to Sector-39 water works, had run into a controversy after it emerged that the project, which is set to cost nearly one-third of the total grant-in-aid received by the civic body this year, was sneaked in with 15 other table agendas and passed in one go.

What raised suspicion was the fact that the expenditure was not written along with the subject of this agenda as is the norm with all other agendas. Counc...