*MC Commissioner reviews financial status of Corporation; directs officers to submit detailed report on reciet during last 5 years*
*Chandigarh, November 20:-* Aiming at generating revenue in the Municipal Corporation and curtail expenditure, MC Commissioner Sh. Amit Kumar, IAS reviewed the financial status of MCC including receipts and expenditure for the last five years in a review meeting held today at conference hall, MCC building, sector 17, Chandigarh.
All the senior officers including Joint Commissioners, Chief Engineer, Superintending Engineers, Executive Engineers, concerned DDOs and dealing assistants along with accounts officers attended the review meeting.
During the meeting the Commissioner reviewed the receipts of different wings including public health (water charges and garbage collection), Property Tax (Commercial and Residential), MC Cess on electricity charges, Roads (Road cut charges, rent and Mobile towers, Apni Mandi), Estate (Rent/shops, eating joints and lease rent, Petrol Pumps), parking (paid parking receipts, rent of taxi stands and cable networks), booking (Rent of Community centres, Scooter and car Bazar, water Mellon and coconut sites and open space booking), Sanitation (sanitation and meat challans, Birth and death registration fee, cattle pond, slaughtering fee), Enforcement (encroachment challans fee), Fire (Fire safety certificate charges, fire tender standby duty charges), Licensing & colony (Rent of old book market, colony rent), Sub office Manimajra (development charges, residential property tax, rent of Rehri sites) Horticulture (rent of poll flags, hedges and fencing, rent of mango garden, sale of old and dead trees) Energy charges (solar power plant), Vendor cell ( street vendor license fee), cow fee (applicable on sale of liquor, registration of vehicles and consumption on electricity bill) and misclenious recites etc.
The Commissioner directed the all concerned officers to prepare detailed report on all receipts within a week for further discussion.
He also reviewed expenditure including improvement of roads/parking, Non Residential buildings, Ward development funds, Landscaping, strengthening of sewerage system and STPs, infrastructure facilities in area recently merged under MCC, Storm water drainage system, basic amenities/services to EWS and civic works etc. and directed the concerned officers to explore alternative solutions to curtail the expenditure.
