The New Indian Express 16.11.2010
GHMC plans to tax coffee shops
It also plans to enhance garbage collection fee from commercial establishments and fee for film/TV shooting in GHMC parks and properties. Developing ring drains around lakes by collecting charges from polluters was also proposed.
It has proposed a library for each division. GHMC has decided to renovate the Harihara Kala Bhavan in Secunderabad.
From now, only lit hoardings will be allowed. Earlier, private agencies used to take licences for non-lit hoardings but lighted them at night.
Compared to the current budget, with an outlay of `2637.77 crore, the budget for 2011-12 was proposed to be `3226.22 crore, an increase of 22.30 per cent. Total revenue income was Rs 1631.62 crore and revenue expenditure `1239.46 crore, a surplus of `392.16 crore. Fund allotted for poverty alleviation is `171.40 crore. A separate budget for weaker sections has been earmarked for the first time. Allocation for development of SC’s is `63.53 crore (16.2 per cent), for ST’s `24.31 crore (6.6 per cent), women development `19.61 crore (5 per cent) and for physically challenged `11.77 crore (3 per cent).
‘Extend deadline for building regularisation’
GHMC mayor Banda Karthika Chandra Reddy requested the state government on Monday to extend the disposal of Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS) applications for regularising unauthorised constructions up to March 31, 2011. In a letter to the minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD), Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, she informed 45,000 eligible applications are pending for disposal, involving an estimated revenue of `200 crore. But the time allowed expired on November 15.
