Chandigarh, April 8 -- The Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) will hold its monthly general house meeting on Wednesday to deliberate on several key issues, including extending a sanitation contract for the city's Southern sectors.

Even as the MC has floated fresh tenders inviting private players to manage GIS-based mechanised and manual sweeping operations in the southern sectors, officials are now planning to extend the contract of the existing agency for the fifth time. The proposal is likely to spark debate, as the repeated extensions have drawn criticism in previous meetings for delaying the rollout of a more efficient contract.

In the agenda, MC officials said, "In the recent after technical evaluation of the tender, only two fi...