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Lucknow Municipal Corporation to issue birth/death certificate within 2 days

Tuesday, 10 September 2013 08:08 administrator
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The Times of India             10.09.2013

Lucknow Municipal Corporation to issue birth/death certificate within 2 days

LUCKNOW: Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has arranged for issuing birth / death certificates to people in the span of just 2 days. Unlike earlier when hospitals and LMC together took around 15-20 days to deliver certificates, the new system has been devised online which gives the convenience to the health officer to go through a certificate more faster.

All private hospitals, clinic, medical colleges and nursing homes of the city have been instructed to send all the birth and death data to LMC online on the same day. If they fail to do so, the corporation would penalise them. For better coordination with hospitals, the LMC has convened few meetings of nursing home and hospital owners in the past.

The registration of births and deaths is an important function of LMC. Even this is also an important reform under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) The certificates issued are very important for anyone as they are definitive legal documents of identity of an individual.

PK Srivastava, additional municipal commissioner said, ""Birth certificates are necessary for admission in school, passport and job applications. Until now, the job was too cumbersome and tedious and people had to suffer much at the hands of babus and bureaucrats who intentionally delayed the work due to vested interests. The new online system would encourage transparency and minimise corruption."

"Some hospitals never send their birth and death records to us and that's why the corporation faces problems while issuing birth/death certificates," said another official. He emphasised that hospitals must understand that if they don't send the data to LMC on time, they are violating the norms of the Birth and Death Registration Act.

Today most of these hospitals are maintaining computerised records. LMC wants the owners of hospitals to forward the data of births and deaths to its account. This would help the corporation update its data fast.

Initially, the municipal corporation would only request the private hospitals to send their data online but after six months it would start penalising even those hospitals that don't cooperate.

"We are mulling a fine of R100 per birth and death or R100 per day in case the records are not sent online to the LMC," said an LMC official.

 

Paid parking lots: MC to reduce reserve price

Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:40 administrator
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The Indian Express              10.09.2013

Paid parking lots: MC to reduce reserve price

After the failure of the auction of paid parking lots held last month, the Municipal Corporation has decided to reduce the reserve price by 10 per cent and re-auction the lots. The auction held earlier had flopped after the civic body levied 12.36 per cent service tax.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Finance and Contract Committee on Monday.

A total of five paid parking lots were to go under the hammer on August 13. As per directions of the Central Excise and Taxation Department, 12.36 per cent service tax was to be imposed on the contractors who bid for the parking lots. Following this, the contractors refused to bid. They demanded a decrease in the reserve price or increase in the parking fees.

As the issue was put before the committee, the members opposed any hike in the parking fees. It was then decided that the reserve price be reduced and the parking lots be re-auctioned. The parking lots that were to be auctioned were present in sectors 17 and 22.

In another decision, the members of F&CC decided not to convert the free parking lots in Sector 22 into paid parking lots as had been proposed. The proposal was to convert four parking lots in Sector 22 and one in Sector 17 into paid parking. This was opposed by the members who stated that there was a need for streamlining the existing paid parking lots instead of converting the free ones into paid ones.

It was decided that the parking lot behind Sagar Ratna restaurant in Sector 17 would be converted into paid parking lot. Earlier, a multilevel parking lot had been proposed at the site. However, the proposal hit several roadblocks. The agency that was awarded the contract went into arbitration and the MC was then directed to pay a heavy penalty to them. Meanwhile, the area that was being used as a free parking lot till now would be converted into a paid parking lot.

The Sahib Singh parking lot in Sector 17 that is to be made fully automated would have a reserve price of Rs 29.22 lakh. It was decided that the area of the Empire Store parking lot would be decreased and reserve price fixed at Rs 12.79 lakh. This would also be fully automated. In the remaining area, vehicles of MC officials would be parked. This is being done due to the construction at the MC building.

A contractor who had earlier given a notice for termination of the contract of a parking lot in Sector 22 has been allowed to withdraw the notice and continue for the remaining period of the contract.

 

Corporators in favour of mini tempos for garbage collection, PMC says not feasible

Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:30 administrator
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The Indian Express              10.09.2013

Corporators in favour of mini tempos for garbage collection, PMC says not feasible

The plan of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) corporators to buy mini tempos to collect garbage in their respective electoral ward has not gone down well with the civic administration.

The administration has struck down the plan by saying that it is not economically feasible and instead suggested the use of large containers for collection .

"Going by the past experience and operating cost of mini tempo, the vehicle is neither economically feasible nor efficient," said Joint Municipal Commissioner Suresh Jagtap in the proposal tabled before the standing committee.

He added, "Apart from the cost of vehicles, the expenditure on driver, cleaner and fuel is around Rs 1,200 a day, which is too much ." The vehicle, which costs Rs 5 lakh, enables garbage collection of 150-175 kg in a single trip. The civic body incurs Rs 2,500 for transporting a tonne of waste.

Civic officials said the capacity of the engine of the vehicle is less and it frequently leads to breakdown, thereby hampering the garbage collection process. "At times, many workers load debris in the vehicle damaging the hydraulic jack of the vehicle," said Jagtap, adding the civic vehicle department does not have expertise and spare parts required to repair such vehicles.

Jagtap said the civic body already has a fleet of 40 such vehicles and every time it sends vehicles for repair to manufacturing company, it takes a lot of time.

He said the mini tempo, which is generally used to collect waste directly from houses, is not required as the civic body already has door-to-door waste collection service. The increasing demand for mini tempos will affect the existing door-to-door waste collection system, he added.

Meanwhile, the civic administration has decided to take a policy decision and purchase such

vehicles only for congested areas after approval from the municipal commissioner.

 
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