Raipur, March 10, 2010
Five persons including a travel agent paid Rs 1,54,307 tax along with penalty to the RMC on Wednesday to avoid attachment of their properties by the municipal officials.
The municipal commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary informed that the municipal’s Revenue team first reached to Ruchi travels based at Rajbandha Maidan to attach its properties for not paying property tax since 2007-08. To prevent RMC’s action, the travel agency owner Shashikant Sharma promptly paid the outstanding amount against his agency that was Rs 68,723.
Similarly, Julekha Begum paid Rs 32,384 (Hawaldar Abdul Hameed ward), Surajbai – Rs 19,900 (Pt Jawaharlal Nehru ward), Tulsi Bai – Rs 11,000 and Shankar Sahay – Rs 22,300 when the Revenue team reached their houses to attach their properties.
The Revenue team led by zone-7 commissioner Hemant Sharma was comprised of Revenue Officer Arun Dubey and Assistant Revenue Officer Deepak Sharma.
Netam: Social audit exposes irregularities in NREGS works
Raipur, March 10, 2010
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Ramvichar Netam has accepted that irregularities prevailed in Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). “We receive a number of complaints regarding irregularities in NREGS but we learnt about it during social audits,” Netam said. His acceptance came while he was replying on budgetary provisions on Panchayat, Rural Development and Legal departments in Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday.
“With an aim to provide optimum benefit of NREGS to the villagers, we are conducting social audits of every work through which irregularities have also been surfaced,” Netam said. “On this basis, the department has taken action against the guilty officials and employees,” he added.
Netam also accepted that there had been delay in payments of workers under NREGS. “We know that payment of some workers have been delayed but we are continuously opening accounts for the beneficiaries in banks and post offices. We have even tried to disburse timely payment through mobile banking,” he said.
“Since the Centre has specifically directed that the payment of workers would only be disbursed through banks and post offices, we cannot adopt any other mode. We want to solve the problem of delay in payment by holding talks with the Union government,” he said.
“Unless the payment reaches in the hands of the beneficiary, we consider it a delay. The delay also occurs because the banks and post offices can have fund only to a specific limit owing to security reasons. Owing to this, the payment is being released according to availability of fund,” he said.
Netam also denied the Opposition’s charge of prevalence of corruption in recruitment of shikshakarmis and claimed that the appointments were being done transparently. “The government has given the entire responsibility like conduction of exams, counselling and appointment of shikshakarmis to the Chhattisgarh Professional Examination Board (CPEB) which is doing the job in an unbiased manner,” he said.
However, he assured the Opposition that the government would take stern action it would receive any complaint pertaining to corruption in appointments of shikshakarmis.
Netam further said that the government aimed to uproot irregularities from village panchayats. “For this, we have decided to rotate the village panchayat secretaries in every three years as a majority of allegations are being levelled against such officials,” he said.
On Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), he said the scheme had been implemented effectively in the state. Netam was interrupted by BJP MLA Badridhar Diwan who said that the government was claiming about proper implementation of PMGSY but still the conditions of several roads in different areas including his own constituency are pathetic.
Diwan was supported by Leader of the Opposition Ravindra Choubey who said the government should take the matter seriously as a large number of roads being constructed under PMGSY across the state need repairing because of below par quality.
Professional training
Raipur, March 10, 2010
The Government Girls Polytechnic Raipur will impart professional training to the educated unemployed youths of Raipur and its nearby areas under ‘community development through polytechnic’ scheme. The various training would be in various disciplines like electrician, data entry operator, cutting and tailoring, carpentry and furniture making, etc. For detailed information about the training programme and admission process, the interested candidate can contact relevant officials at the institute based at Bairon Bazar.
Women reservation
Raipur, March 10, 2010
The PCC president Dhanendra Sahu, Leader of the Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Ravindra Choubey and Lok Sabha MP from Korba Charandas Mahant have said that the women reservation Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha owing to the commitment of AICC chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh towards women empowerment. They said Gandhi had given the invaluable gift to the women of India on the International Women’s Day. The trio hoped that the women would play key role in building the nation by joining active politics.
Memorandum to Commissioner
Raipur, March 10, 2010
The Chhattisgarh SC/ST Students’ Union has alleged that the Tribal Development department’s Assistant Commissioner BK Rajput was harassing the SC/ST students living in hostels for the past one year. In addition, hostel superintendents and staffers are also irked with the Rajput’s attitude, the union said. In this regard, the union has submitted a memorandum to the department’s Commissioner BA Anant demanding Rajput’s quick removal. The union’s state president Yashwant Bandhe informed that anarchy prevailed in all the SC/ST hostels owing to Rajput’s tyranny. “Our hostels lack basic facilities but Rajput has shut his eyes from our problems. A number of hostels are still vacant because the proposed names of students from the waiting list have not been added in the main list,” he alleged. The government is well aware about the complaints against Rajput but it has not taking any action against him, said Bandhe.
RMC serves notices to 25 banks
Asks to pay permission fee for ATMs before March 15
Raipur, March 10, 2010
The RMC’s municipal commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has once again served notice to 25 different banks operating in the city to provide information about their existing ATMs and to submit permission fee Rs 12,000 for each ATM before March 15. The notice has been issued through the municipal’s Town Planning and Building Permission department.
Choudhary has made it evident that the RMC would charge five times fine of the total fee amount from the banks that would not pay the permission fee by the given timeframe.
In addition, the banks would also have to pay Rs 6000 as renewal fee every year, he said. Choudhary also informed the banks that the new ATMS would only be allowed to set up when the permission fee would be deposited in the municipal office.
Notably, the RMC had issued notices to the these 25 banks earlier on February 24, 2010 but none have submitted permission fee in the municipal office so far.
The bank than have got notice are – Union Bank of India, State Bank of Indore, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Indus Ind Bank, Dena Bank, Central Bank of India, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Axis Bank, Allahabad Bank, Syndicate Bank, Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, HDFC Bank, Vijaya Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Andhra Bank, Karnataka Bank, Maharashtra Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank, Jammu & Kashmir Bank and Punjab & Sindh Bank.
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