Faridabad MC to lodge FIRs

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, March 4

The Municipal Corporation, Faridabad (MCF) will lodge FIR against the consumers who fail to get their connections regularized.

Meanwhile, the civic body has regularized around 2500 connections till Wednesday. The city has around 90,000 illegal connections.

MCF Commissioner Ashok Sharma said that while the campaign to regularize such connections was on full steam, they will impose penalties, lodge FIRs and disconnect the connections.

The MCF has been under flak for losing lakhs in connection charges each month and this was one of the main factors behind the civic body’s poor financial health.

Sources said the MCF has launched a single window facility in all three zones (NIT, Ballabgarh and Old Faridabad) where a nominal fee of Rs 11000 per connection was being collected. Though the regularization drive is likely to be extended beyond March 31, penal action will be initiated against the defaulters after this period is over.

Rattan Lal Rohilla, Zonal Taxation Officer and in-charge of the drive, said the MCF had simplified the process of regularization such connections after a resolution adopted members of the civic body in November last year. No extra charges or penality was being realized from the applicants now.

As many as 60 camps have been held so resulting in a collection of Rs 70 lakh. The civic body is looking up to fill its coffers through internal income generation process which include the realization of pending taxes and bills.