Commissioner reviews financial status of civic body

Aiming at generating revenue in the municipal corporation (MC) and curtailing expenditure, Municipal Commissioner Amit Kumar reviewed the financial status of the civic body, including receipts and expenditure, for the last five years in a review meeting held today.

All senior officers, including Joint Commissioners, Chief Engineer, Superintending Engineers, Executive Engineers, DDOs concerned 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, watermelon and coconut selling sites and open space booking), sanitation (sanitation and meat challans, birth and death registration fee, cattle pond, slaughtering fee), etc.

The Commissioner directed all officers concerned to prepare a 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 and STPs, infrastructure facilities in area recently merged under MC, storm water drainage system, basic amenities/services to EWS and civic works, etc. and directed the officers concerned to explore alternative solutions to curtail the expenditure.