The Hindu 04.03.2013
GHMC to clear pending trade licences
The GHMC has a database of over 1.5 lakh trades when it is estimated that there could be over 2.5 lakh trades yet about 35,000 take trade licences every year. Commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu said that Rs.21 crore could be collected by issuing licences on time.
Stating that several provisional applications for trade licenses were pending for disposal at the medical officers’ level, the Municipal Commissioner gave them a week’s time for clearing the pending ones or they would face deduction of penalties from their salaries.
The municipal corporation provided the facility to apply for provisional trade licences at all meeseva and citizen service centres.
Ward committee/
area sabhas
At a separate meeting with all Zonal and Deputy Commissioners, Mr. Krishna Babu wanted ward committees to meet every two months and area sabhas once in three months. If the corporator concerned was not holding the meetings despite repeated reminders the majority of members can hold one with the consent of the secretary, he said.
‘Face disqualification’
The Commissioner also pointed out that corporator concerned is liable to face disqualification if he fails to conduct the ward committee meetings regularly.
Ghansibazar, Mehdipatnam, Saleem Nagar, Azampura and Puranapul divisions were especially lagging behind, he said.
Similarly, area sabha meetings too could be held if more than 50 voters of that particular ward and a majority of the members were present with the secretary’s consent, he added, according to a press release.
