Raipur, May 14, 2010
The District Congress Committee (DCC) says that after the Mayor-in-Council (MiC) revoked the hike in property tax on May 8, 2010, the opposition BJP in RMC was planning bring proposal to increase the tax again in the special general body meeting that would be held in next coming days. The DCC has advised all its corporators and the Mayor to oppose the BJP’s proposal.
The DCC president Inderchand Dhariwal said that property tax was actually increased by the RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary who had asked the municipal Secretariate officials to change the decision taken by the MiC after he was being pressurised by the BJP-led state government.
Dhariwal said the Congress would also raise the issue of consolidated tax that was increased by the government without informing the RMC. “It was really strange that the government on February 5, 2010 published in its gazette about hike in consolidated tax that was Rs 600 for all the property taxpayers and Rs 300 for slum dwellers every year. We have objected this hike and had also launched massive campaign against revocation of this tax in the capital. Now, the Congress will bring a proposal in the special general body meeting for annulment of this tax,” said Dhariwal.
Notably, both Congress and BJP want to take political mileage on tax issue. Congress alleges that the government was interfering in the RMC works and was steering the municipal administration. It further says that the government had hiked the consolidated tax deliberately to harass the mayor who belonged to Congress.
The BJP, too, has not let any stone unturned in trapping Congress on property tax issue and strongly condemned the ruling party for taking anti-people decision by hiking the tax. Later, when the MiC revoked the property tax, the BJP labeled it as its victory.
The issue of both consolidated and property taxes would certainly rock the general body meeting, admit the corporators from both the parties.
Mayor demands Rs 100 cr for capital from CM
Raipur, May 14, 2010
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has demanded Rs 100 crore from Chief Minister Raman Singh for development of the capital city and to accord it special status. Nayak met Singh on Friday and informed him that the RMC lacked funds and consequently the development works in the city had been affected. She also sought special support and guidance from the government to raise infrastructure in the city considering the national games that would be held after two years in the state.
Nayak said the debt on RMC was about Rs 50 crore when the newly elected body commenced its works after civic body elections, but it had been brought down to Rs 3.5 crore currently.
She further pointed out that Raipur had been placed at 274th position in the recent national survey on sanitation because the city lacked basic facilities, especially in the slum areas. She said the sanitary conditions of the capital could only be improved when more number of Sulabh toilets would be constructed in slum areas.
Nayak was accompanied by her spouse Vinod Nayak, Mayor-in-Council (MiC) member Manoj Kandoi, Congress Corporator Gyanesh Sharma and independent corporator Mrityunjay Dubey during her visit to the CM.
RMC to recycle polythene waste
Raipur, May 14, 2010
The RMC is mulling over to recycle polythene waste for which it has roped in a plastic recycling company - Innovative Eco Care (IEC) from Ahmedabad. The IEC Director M Chaturvedi showed a demo of initial phase of recycling process to Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak in front of indoor stadium in Sports Complex, Budhapara on Friday. Chaturvedi informed that the his company converts the solid wastes like polythene, glass, metal, etc into culture fertilizer by sprinkling organic culture and liquid culture on them. Chaturvedi sprinkled both organic and liquid cultures on the polythene waste in front of indoor stadium and informed that the recycling process would take maximum three weeks. In this technique, the dry and wet waste need not require separation. After recycling, the waste is sieved to get culture fertilizer.
CM gives respite to power staff
Raipur, May 14, 2010
The Chhattisgarh State Power Holding Company Limited (CSPHCL) has increased the salary of power staff by additional eight percent after Chief Minister Raman Singh issued directives to the company in this regard on Friday. The officials and employees of all the power companies had expressed their displeasure on the revised pay-scale announced by the CSPHCL according to which their salary was hiked to 22 percent. The power staff has also met the CM in this connection and had given him a letter seeking his interference in providing appropriate revised-pay-scale to them.
Earlier, the CSPHCL had constituted a single-member salary revision committee chaired by Sharatchandra for fixation of new revised pay-scale of the power staff. The committee recommended for 22 percent salary hike. Now, the CSPHCL has amended this new structure and had decided to give eight percent additional salary to the power staff.
The associations and federations of power staff say that the CSPHCL finally buckled down after they announced to go on state-wide strike from May 22, 2010. The power staff said they had been agitating for over a month with their demand for amendment in the pay-scale and eventually the CM and the CSPHCL authorities gave them respite.
The amended salary would be effective from April 1, 2009. The power staff will also get House Rent Allowance (HRA) according to the new structure from April 1, 2009 instead of April 1, 2010. The CSPHCL has also decided to provide many more benefits to the power staff considering their additional demand apart from pay-scale issue.
The Managing Director of CSPHCL Vinod Shrivastava informed that the company had decided to give filed allowance to the filed technical staff on recommendations of salary revision committee. The allowance was five percent of the basic pay-scale of the technical staff. The company had also increased Bastar allowance for its staff posted in Bijapur, Dantewada and Narayanpur districts from 10 to 20 percent.
The District Congress Committee (DCC) says that after the Mayor-in-Council (MiC) revoked the hike in property tax on May 8, 2010, the opposition BJP in RMC was planning bring proposal to increase the tax again in the special general body meeting that would be held in next coming days. The DCC has advised all its corporators and the Mayor to oppose the BJP’s proposal.
The DCC president Inderchand Dhariwal said that property tax was actually increased by the RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary who had asked the municipal Secretariate officials to change the decision taken by the MiC after he was being pressurised by the BJP-led state government.
Dhariwal said the Congress would also raise the issue of consolidated tax that was increased by the government without informing the RMC. “It was really strange that the government on February 5, 2010 published in its gazette about hike in consolidated tax that was Rs 600 for all the property taxpayers and Rs 300 for slum dwellers every year. We have objected this hike and had also launched massive campaign against revocation of this tax in the capital. Now, the Congress will bring a proposal in the special general body meeting for annulment of this tax,” said Dhariwal.
Notably, both Congress and BJP want to take political mileage on tax issue. Congress alleges that the government was interfering in the RMC works and was steering the municipal administration. It further says that the government had hiked the consolidated tax deliberately to harass the mayor who belonged to Congress.
The BJP, too, has not let any stone unturned in trapping Congress on property tax issue and strongly condemned the ruling party for taking anti-people decision by hiking the tax. Later, when the MiC revoked the property tax, the BJP labeled it as its victory.
The issue of both consolidated and property taxes would certainly rock the general body meeting, admit the corporators from both the parties.
Mayor demands Rs 100 cr for capital from CM
Raipur, May 14, 2010
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has demanded Rs 100 crore from Chief Minister Raman Singh for development of the capital city and to accord it special status. Nayak met Singh on Friday and informed him that the RMC lacked funds and consequently the development works in the city had been affected. She also sought special support and guidance from the government to raise infrastructure in the city considering the national games that would be held after two years in the state.
Nayak said the debt on RMC was about Rs 50 crore when the newly elected body commenced its works after civic body elections, but it had been brought down to Rs 3.5 crore currently.
She further pointed out that Raipur had been placed at 274th position in the recent national survey on sanitation because the city lacked basic facilities, especially in the slum areas. She said the sanitary conditions of the capital could only be improved when more number of Sulabh toilets would be constructed in slum areas.
Nayak was accompanied by her spouse Vinod Nayak, Mayor-in-Council (MiC) member Manoj Kandoi, Congress Corporator Gyanesh Sharma and independent corporator Mrityunjay Dubey during her visit to the CM.
RMC to recycle polythene waste
Raipur, May 14, 2010
The RMC is mulling over to recycle polythene waste for which it has roped in a plastic recycling company - Innovative Eco Care (IEC) from Ahmedabad. The IEC Director M Chaturvedi showed a demo of initial phase of recycling process to Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak in front of indoor stadium in Sports Complex, Budhapara on Friday. Chaturvedi informed that the his company converts the solid wastes like polythene, glass, metal, etc into culture fertilizer by sprinkling organic culture and liquid culture on them. Chaturvedi sprinkled both organic and liquid cultures on the polythene waste in front of indoor stadium and informed that the recycling process would take maximum three weeks. In this technique, the dry and wet waste need not require separation. After recycling, the waste is sieved to get culture fertilizer.
CM gives respite to power staff
Raipur, May 14, 2010
The Chhattisgarh State Power Holding Company Limited (CSPHCL) has increased the salary of power staff by additional eight percent after Chief Minister Raman Singh issued directives to the company in this regard on Friday. The officials and employees of all the power companies had expressed their displeasure on the revised pay-scale announced by the CSPHCL according to which their salary was hiked to 22 percent. The power staff has also met the CM in this connection and had given him a letter seeking his interference in providing appropriate revised-pay-scale to them.
Earlier, the CSPHCL had constituted a single-member salary revision committee chaired by Sharatchandra for fixation of new revised pay-scale of the power staff. The committee recommended for 22 percent salary hike. Now, the CSPHCL has amended this new structure and had decided to give eight percent additional salary to the power staff.
The associations and federations of power staff say that the CSPHCL finally buckled down after they announced to go on state-wide strike from May 22, 2010. The power staff said they had been agitating for over a month with their demand for amendment in the pay-scale and eventually the CM and the CSPHCL authorities gave them respite.
The amended salary would be effective from April 1, 2009. The power staff will also get House Rent Allowance (HRA) according to the new structure from April 1, 2009 instead of April 1, 2010. The CSPHCL has also decided to provide many more benefits to the power staff considering their additional demand apart from pay-scale issue.
The Managing Director of CSPHCL Vinod Shrivastava informed that the company had decided to give filed allowance to the filed technical staff on recommendations of salary revision committee. The allowance was five percent of the basic pay-scale of the technical staff. The company had also increased Bastar allowance for its staff posted in Bijapur, Dantewada and Narayanpur districts from 10 to 20 percent.
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