The Pioneer 28.06.2013
Municipal council to have website, toll free number
Hazaribagh municipal council will soon have its own website and will launch a toll free number for the residents of municipal area. It was decided in the board meeting of Hazaribagh municipal council held under the chairmanship of Anjali Kumari.
The denizens can register their problems through this toll free number and they can get the up-to-date information about the council and its activities through the website. Both these facilities will start within a month.
In this meeting with the consent of ward councillors the municipal council has decided to hand over some important roads of the town area to the PWD road division for construction and maintenance. Initially 8 roads will be given to the road division and after scrutinising the proposals of ward councilors some more roads may be handed over.
As the meeting started the ward councilors raised the question of their seating arrangement in the municipal office. Executive officer Ajay Kumar Sao said that within a month he will arrange it. In this meeting the councilors raised the problems of drain cleaning and mosquito terror. Executive officer informed that special cleaning drive is going on these days and fogging in atleast one ward is being done daily to control these problems.
In this meeting the councilors also discussed on the issue of increasing the income of municipal council. It was decided that satellite mapping of the area will be done with the help of some agency and then fresh drive will start to review the taxes. In this meeting it was also decided unanimously that there will be a 25% hike in the taxes imposed by the government on hotels, lodges, rest houses, community halls, marriage halls etc.
In this meeting Vice-Chairman Anand Dev, ward councillors Kamal Gope, Kajal Mukherjee, Sudipto Chaterjee, Neelima Anant, Vishwanath Vishwakarma, Aruna Devi, Mona Devi and others were present. The board also confirmed the change of name of a part of Kumhartoli Road as Sant Praman Sagar Marg.
