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Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation initiates action in cheque bounce cases

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 12:00 administrator
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The Times of India             12.02.2014

Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation initiates action in cheque bounce cases

VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner M V Satyanarayana on Tuesday visited the accounts department of the civic body and pulled up officials for failing to take action against taxpayers whose cheques have bounced regularly.

His tour of the department follows TOI report on Tuesday headlined "Bouncing cheques add to GVMC's tax collection woes." Satyanarayana instructed the accounts section staff, including financial advisor Prasada Rao, to immediately serve special notices on those whose cheques have bounced. He also directed the officials to initiate legal action if the taxpayers repeatedly indulged in the illegal practice of submitting dud cheques.

Satyanarayana instructed Rao to appoint senior assistant and junior accountant cadre staff of the accounts section as examiners of cheques for each authorized bank and tax collection counter of the GVMC. The appointed staff will be responsible for examining the cheques and collecting taxes from taxpayers whose cheques were returned unpaid, the civic chief said.

Accounts officers informed the commissioner that a total of 58 cheques to the tune of Rs 9,26,094 bounced from April to November, 2013 while 10 cheques worth Rs 1,81,913 were returned in December, 2013 alone. However, the number of cheque bounce cases was lower as compared to the last fiscal. In 2012-13, as many as 308 cheques worth a whopping Rs 96,50,530 were returned, the accounts officer replied.

 

Civic budget to be tabled next week

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:58 administrator
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The Times of India             12.02.2014

Civic budget to be tabled next week

PUNE: The civic budget will be tabled before the elected members during the general body meeting next week.

The civic administration's budget was presented in second week of last month. The draft budget of Rs 3,608.02 crore for 2014-15 financial year has been sent to the standing committee, which is making changes in it. The standing committee had given all the rights to make the changes in the budget, to the committee chairman.

"The budget will now come up for the discussion before the general body on February 18 ," said a senior official of Pune municipal corporation, while speaking to reporters.

Heated discussions are expected on the budget as a group of elected members in PMC has been demanding equal distribution of funds among all the wards.

A group of corporators claimed that some wards have got less funds compared to the other wards. "A panel system is in place in the city. One panel has two wards namely A and B and the funds for both should be equal, they say. It is not the case in recently presented budget so the standing committee should do proper distribution of the funds," the group had stated.

The corporators said that development works in their wards may be hampered if funds are not provided for them. They demanded that all corporators should get equal amount of money to carry out the works.

Replying to the demands, the civic officials had said that the funds have been allotted as per demands of the corporators and specific projects that he or she has suggested in their ward.

 

Team of civic teachers civilians to assess old civic buildings

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:57 administrator
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The Times of India             12.02.2014

Team of civic teachers civilians to assess old civic buildings

VASHI: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has trained a team of 20, including civic teachers, doctors and engineers, to report on condition of the structures of 10 civic schools and two hospitals.

The team is expected to give its preliminary findings by first week of March. It will implement techniques taught during the two-day workshop on Rapid Visual Survey of buildings, conducted by the civic body.

The data will be compiled with the help of a standardized tool kit provided to the disaster management cell as an overview on the structural condition of these buildings. The cell will, then, take a call whether to rope in engineers to conduct structural audit or conduct repair works.

"The idea was to alert the common man about the conditions of their building. They should be capable of ascertaining if repair and maintenance work is needed to avert accidents. Currently, the survey is focusing on the condition of NMMC structures," said a civic official.

The workshop, conducted under the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) and a Government of India-funded project on Climate Risk Management (CRM), was held on February 4 and 5.

The toolkit for the assessment is designed in two modules - surveying buildings less than 30 years old and retro maintenance to be undertaken on older constructions. "Simple questionnaire is provided and relevant weightage has also been provided, which eventually provides a detailed graph on the building's condition," the official added.

 
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