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Palike trails in meeting revenue target

Wednesday, 01 December 2010 05:59 administrator
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The Deccan Herald  01.12.2010

Palike trails in meeting revenue target

Bangalore, November 30, DHNS :

With just four months for the closure of the current financial year, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has achieved only 17.1 per cent of its budgeted revenue target.

The civic body, in its much-delayed budget, had set a target to mop up a revenue of Rs 8446.96 crore under 28 heads of accounts while the payments were put at Rs 8,862.03 crore. However, eight months into the present fiscal, the collection stands at Rs 1,444.87 crore, just 17.1 per cent of the target, whereas the payments have reached Rs 1,926.18 crore, 21.73 per cent of that proposed in the budget. The deficit between the receipts and payments stands at Rs 485.31 crore.

High expectations

The departments from which the Palike had high expectations seem to have underperformed. Only a sum of Rs 58.93 crore has been realised so far from the Town Planning Department as against the targetted revenue of Rs 1,016.4 crore.

Health Department too has lagged behind; a mere Rs 4.13 crore against the goal of Rs 191.15 crore.

The receipts from Advertisement Department are neither enthusiastic; Rs 2.91 crore against a goal of Rs 120 crore. The Revenue department hasn’t stood for its name by raking in only Rs 620.38 crore against the target of Rs 2,414.7 crore.

The Engineering Department (Solid Waste Management) was expected to rake in Rs 151.43 crore but remained way behind at Rs 85.22 lakh.

However, the only glimmer of hope is the Estate and Asset Management Department. It has surpassed the target of Rs 1.05 crore by accumulating Rs 3.02 crore so far.

Releasing the statistics to the media, leader of the Opposition in the Council, M Nagaraj, said wrong financial foundation of the Palike may lead to its bankruptcy.

Special grants

However, Finance and Tax Committee chairperson P N Sadashiva said the Palike got Rs 1,500 crore from HUDCO and Rs 480 crore as Special Grants of the Finance Commission.

He said the revenue through advertisements would go up after the Palike starts the renewal of advertisements.

"Last year the revenue from advertisements was Rs 37 crore and it would go up this time. Similarly, we would get another Rs 150 crore from betterment charges, which we approved in the recent Council meeting," said Sadashiva.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 December 2010 06:02
 

Walia misled Assembly on funds, alleges MCD

Wednesday, 01 December 2010 05:43 administrator
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The Pioneer  01.12.2010

Walia misled Assembly on funds, alleges MCD

Staff Reporter | New Delhi

While training its guns on Delhi Finance Minister AK Walia, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has alleged the Minister presented fudged statistic of funds allocated to the civic body for developmental works in the Assembly on Monday. Sticking to its earlier stand, the MCD reiterated properties situated in rural areas, villages or urbansied villages should be exempted from property tax.

Standing Committee Chairman Yogender Chandolia alleged the dates placed by the Delhi Minister Dr Walia before the Assembly are wrong and far from the reality. “Government has not paid any heed to the five-point resolution passed by the Corporation during 2007-2010 in this regard. Exemption should be made applicable from 2007 itself. the Delhi Government due to political motives is ignoring the resolutions passed by the local body,” said he.

Chandolia said the Government promised to give grant of `50 crore for development of unauthorised colonies for the year 2010-11 and only `37.50 crore have been received so far under this head.

“MCD is taking care of sanitation in 1,539 unauthorized colonies. In all since 1998-2011, only Rs 569 crores have been given to MCD for the purpose. But it is wrongly informed that they have given Rs 3,326 crores to MCD for development in unauthorized colonies. It means they have diverted funds to the tune of Rs 2755 crores which the Finance Minister has admitted had been given to MCD as MCD got only Rs.569 crores in actual,” clarified the BJP leader.

Demanding that the said funds should be released immediately to MCD, he further added as far as regularization of unauthorized colonies is concerned, MCD has to finalize the lay-out plans but before that Delhi Government was to finalize the boundaries, which has not been done yet. “The work of finalizing the lay-out plans cannot be done by the local body unless Delhi Government finalizes the boundaries of unauthorised colonies,” said he.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 December 2010 05:45
 

State sanctions Rs 317.85 crore for Pune district for 2011-12

Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:58 administrator
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Indian Express          30.11.2010

 State sanctions Rs 317.85 crore for Pune district for 2011-12

Express News Service Tags : development, dpdc Posted: Tue Nov 30 2010, 06:43 hrs

 Pune:  At the District Planning Development Council (DPDC) meeting at the Council Hall on Monday, the state government sanctioned Rs 317.85 crore for 2011-12 the Pune district. The proposal got Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s nod who chaired the meeting. He continues to hold the post of guardian minister.

Speaker of Legislative Assembly Dilip Valse Patil and Cooperative Minister Harshvardhan Patil, divisional commissioner Dilip Band and district collector Chandrakant Dalvi attended the meeting.The DPDC also cleared Rs 229.61 crore in common funds, while Rs 58.70 lakh has been cleared for backward classes and Rs 29.54 lakh for tribal development.

For innovative schemes, Rs 10.12 crore has been sanctioned, Rs 2.35 crore for strengthning laboratories under the health department, Rs 88 lakh for high-end laboratories in the animal husbandry department and Rs 1.94 lakh has been sanctioned for Manikdoh tiger eserve.

The DPDC stressed giving enough funds to truly deserving sportspersons from various talukas. Clearing new grounds for sports, anganwadis, rain guages for every area and increasing tourist areas in the district was other areas discussed in the meeting. Development of Sinhagad Fort was also discussed. New anganwadis were proposed by minister Patil while industrial training centres, libraries, schools was suggested by Speaker Patil.

BJP MLA Girish Bapat called for permanent grounds for promoting kabaddi and kho kho while a postal stamp on Hutatma Rajguru will be executed at the earliest. Collector Dalvi presented the budget as well as gave a detailed presentation on the use of funds allocated for this financial year. Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal, zilla parishad president Savita Dagade, MP Shirur Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil, PMC commissioner Mahesh Zagade and other senior officers were also present at the meeting. 

Zagade asks dept heads to personally prepare budgetary proposals
To increase the level of confidence and sense of responsibility of the head of the departments of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade has urged the department heads to personally prepare the budgetary proposals for 2011-12 instead of leaving the task to juniors.

In a letter written to all the departments heads, he said as leaders of various teams and as authorities responsible for subjects allocated to them, the officers alone can make the difference between what exists and what actually is required in terms of civic services, infrastructure and anything and everything that makes this city liveable.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 2010 11:00
 
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