DDLG reviews working of municipal councils

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 15

Deputy Director Local Government (DDLG) Darbara Singh took stock of the pace and progress in the work of ongoing developmental projects and also reviewed the functioning of the municipal councils on Tuesday.

Presiding over a meeting at Circuit House, Singh said the work of replacing street lights with LED lights has been completed in four Municipal Councils.

The Deputy Director also said that the sterilisation of stray dogs’ was running only in Jalandhar region and 5,902 dogs have already been sterilised in 16 towns falling under Jalandhar region. He also issued directions to the councils concerned to complete the project in their areas as soon as possible.

He assessed the programme of disbursing loans to street vendors and directed the councils to ensure that all applications of street vendors can be made online in the next three days.

Darbara Singh also informed that towns of Jalandhar region have already been declared open defecation free. He also took the stock of the recovery of property tax, building fee, water supply and sewage bills among other things.