The New Indian Express 09.09.2009
BPS application processing speeds up at GHMC
Subsequently, the Commissioner issued instructions to Zonal Commissioners, deputys and City Planners, instructing them to segregate eligible and ineligible applications with due effect. Meanwhile, sources at he GHMC noted that the incomplete forms would be requirted to be filled up by the defaulting applicants, and a team would be formed in this regard to guide applicants to submit the same immediately.
The constituted teams would maintain proper mechanism to deal with the people and provide need-based assistance to applicants.
For this purpose, they would visit the people and localities to apprise them to submit document and balance payments immediately.
All the Deputy Commissioners in turn, have been asked to prepare an action plan to process the applications within the time limit of 40 days, for which, daily progress reports are to be sent to Head Office. The Commissioner in this connection has asked the circles at L B Nagar, Seri Lingampally and Ramchandrapuram among others to improve their performance.
At the timing of writing, applications in excess of 2 lakhs had been recieved by the GHMC, out of which around 15 percent are ineligible for incompleteness, while 1,31,753 applications are in full shape.
The percentage of disposal to the total eligible applications is 24 percent; while Percentage of disposal to the total applications which are in full shape are 32 percent. The total amount collected so far is about Rs 70.62 crore, informed GHMC sources.