Sheila Taxes Us As Crores Go Unspent

The series of tax hikes effected by chief minister Sheila Dikshit to raise money for urban improvement could have been avoided had her government utilised central funds earmarked for infrastructure development.

The midterm appraisal of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission ( JNNURM) accessed by MAIL TODAY shows the state government spent a mere Rs 22 crore of the nearly Rs 6,000 crore committed by the Centre for the fiscal years 2005- 06 to 2009- 10.

As a result, the huge amount was allowed to lapse, leading to a funds crunch for the Capital's urban development.

 

JNNURM funds are used for infrastructure development and creating facilities for the urban poor. The midterm appraisal report is prepared by the Union ministry for urban development.

The state government had only to submit detailed project reports on time. But it did not do this for three consecutive fiscal years 2005- 06 to 2007- 08. In 2008- 09, it got only Rs 22 crore against the sanctioned plans.

In 2009- 10, against its city development plans, that is draft proposals, the Centre sanctioned nearly Rs 5,500 crore.

Shockingly, Delhi bureaucrats yet again failed to prepare detailed project reports - the final project plans that include design details and execution plans - allowing the hefty amount to lapse.

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Water Problem and DJB

Water shortage in delhi is known to DJB and political bosses and is there fore not a new phenomenon.
Solution may invole long term strategy and expenditure of crores of rupees.
But baffling is that tube wells functional in almost all residential societies and even services were handed over to MCD, were functional but were made in operative just a few years ago.
Such tubewells were boosting and to some extent mitigating water shortage.
Unfortunately, some decision at policy maker level has been taken without consideration of discomfort to citizen.
Could any body throw light as to how DJB COULD BE MADE TO REALISE THEIR FOLLY.
kk ghei Vice President Madhuvan RWA

Stray dog problem in Geeta colony

In our area i.e. Block 18, Geeta Colony, the problem of stray dogs have worson.  Daily 3-4 people are becoming victims of these dogs.  Can these dogs be removed from our area?  We should make authorities aware of this.  Telephone/mobile numbers of officials concerned with this problem may please arranged to be put on this Blog so that everybody is aware and in case of need may contact them.

Regards,

Vijay Kochhar

President

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Green Panel Whip On MCD: Build Parking Lots By Aug

Civic Body Will Have To Return Rs 811Cr Taken From Traders If It Fails To Meet Deadline

The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has put the MCD on notice. It has asked the civic body to provide parking on 3,000-odd commercial and mixed-land-use streets by August.

``If the MCD fails to meet the deadline, EPCA will declare these streets no-parking zones and the civic agency will have to give back the Rs 811 crore that it has collected from traders in the form of conversion, parking and registration charges over the past four years,'' said EPCA member Sunita Narain. EPCA is monitoring the government's parking policy according to Supreme Court guidelines.

The MCD had collected the amount from traders to upgrade infrastructure and, particularly, create parking lots. But not a single parking lot has come up in the past four years.

MCD press and information director Deep Mathur told TOI: ``The money collected as conversion and parking charges is being used for various parking projects. We are also using it for other development projects such as upgradation of roads. There are thousands of traders who are yet to pay the conversion and parking charges and the civic agency is sealing their properties.''

But some officials in the civic agency admitted that a large chunk of the money collected had not been used as the parking projects had been inordinately delayed.

'Secretary of Lajpat Nagar Traders' Association D N Rajpal said: ``Each trader in Lajpat Nagar has paid Rs 2 lakh to Rs 3 lakh as conversion and parking charges but we are yet to be provided with a solution to the parking problem. On top of that, the civic agency has told us not to park our cars in front of our shops. We, too, don't want to park our cars in front of our shops but what alternative do we have?''

 When asked about the delay, MCD officials said most companies were not willing to invest in parking projects.

‘‘The automated parking projects were conceptualised on a build-operate-transfer basis but companies were not keen as most of the projects involved an investment of Rs 200 crore. In many cases, like the car parking project at Rani Bagh, we had to call tenders thrice before any company showed interest.’’

There are 143 surface parking sites in the city which can accommodate 15,000 vehicles. Delhi has over 60 lakh registered vehicles. With parking problems increasing by the day, the civic agency has floated tenders for 120 surface parking projects. It has also lined up several stack parking, automated multi-level parking and conventional parking projects. 

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MCD Moots Plan To Widen Tax Net

The MCD on Monday gave its nod to the use of domestic breeding checkers (DBCs) as property surveyors that would help the corporation set up a database on the number of properties eligible for taxation. In the long run, this is likely to help the MCD shore up its revenues by bringing more houses in the property tax net.

The Standing Committee of the MCD passed the proposal, according to which DBCs, while making the rounds of homes to check mosquito breeding will carry a form that would have to be filled up by the owners.

Since long, the MCD has been trying to bring more people under the property tax net. Although in the last financial year, the MCD claimed to have collected record amount of property tax, it was attributed largely to the two amnesty schemes the corporation came up with. Only around 10 lakh houses are currently believed to be in the tax net. Officials maintain at least 22 lakh houses were not paying any tax.

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BSES Meters `Running Fine', Time To Pay Up

Nearly 4,000 power consumers, who contested their unusually high electricity bills in June 2009, will have to pay the original billed amounts over the next two months.

  Sources in BSES said the check meters installed at the consumers' houses to see if their original meters were running too fast have "consistently shown" the same readings as the original meters.

After the unusually harsh summer in 2009, thousands of consumers had contested their power bills. People queued up at various power grievance forums to file complaints and questioned the credibility of bills that were, in some cases, over 100 per cent of what was usually charged. "People claimed their bills showed spikes that went from Rs 7,000 to Rs 20,000 without any significant increase in consumption," a Power department official recalled. The discoms blamed the hike on the withdrawal of a 10 per cent subsidy by the Delhi government.

Following a long investigation into the issue, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) came up with a temporary solution.

Discoms were asked to install check meters for five months in houses of consumers who had contested their bills to check if the high bills were a result of fast running meters.

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MCD plans stray dog sterilisation camps

Taking note of the city’s record of 15 to 20 cases of dog bite every day, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is trying its bit to get rid of the nuisance of stray dogs. 

Clearing its long-awaited proposal, the civic body has given orders to open centres for sterilisation and anti-rabies vaccination of stray dogs in the city.

The municipal commissioner has issued directions to identify land for the centres. Around 10 centres will be opened across Delhi, the maximum of which will be located in the Trans Yamuna area, as it has the highest population of stray dogs. 

“We want to do away with the problem of stray dogs before the Commonwealth Games. Dealing with stray dogs is getting tougher as we do not have sufficient number of centres to treat them and enough non-government organisations (NGOs) working for them,” said a senior MCD officer.

The corporation had outsourced the work of sterilisation of dogs to NGOs in 2003. A total of 10 NGOs were roped in by the civic body for the purpose. In 2008-09, 2,7199 stray dogs were caught for sterilisation, in 2006-07, the count was 18,428 and in 2005-06, 12,682 dogs were caught by the NGOs. The NGOs get Rs 445 for the treatment of every dog.

“The increasing number of stray dogs on Delhi roads is a big problem. We have been running dog sterilisation campaigns with the NGOs, but they have not yielded satisfactory results. Therefore, was decided to open our own centres for sterilisation of dogs where anyone can bring dogs for treatment,” said the officer.

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Dal Prices To Go Up At 400 Govt Outlets Will Be Effective From June 7

Now, even Delhi government is finding it difficult to keep the price of pulses under wrap at the outlets it had opened to sell essential commodities at a reasonable rate.

The food and civil supplies department on Tuesday announced an increase in prices of three varieties of pulses currently being sold at 400 selected outlets, including all Mother Dairy booths.

The price of chana dal has been increased from Rs 31/kg to Rs 32/kg while Kala chana will be sold at Rs 31/kg instead of Rs 30/kg. The increase will be effective from June 7.

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