Thiruvananthapuram: City Corporation produces more income from road restoration than the cumulative number of collected as rent and income from assets in 2019-20, according to the annual administrative report for 2019-20 recently submitted in the Corporate Council.
Ideally the income from road restoration costs is rarely scheduled as a source of potential income and local body should generate income from assets.
However, it turned out that the corporation took Rs 15.26 Crore from road restoration costs in 2019-20 which was actually almost 280% higher than anticipated in budget estimates for the same fiscal.
Usually the company will disgust Rs 1.5 Crore to RS 2 Crore as income from the cost of cutting roads.
Money from the Road Restoration Ballooned in 2019-20 mainly because of the company’s revenue obtained from private telecommunications companies.
“Request notifications for pole rental and allegations of delayed road cuts in previous years due to the lack of clarity cleaned in 2019-20.
With initial estimates, around Rs 12 Crore came from personal telecommunications companies,” said a corporate official.
City Corporation has received a lot of complaints from residents because of a steep increase in the allegations of road cuts for utility connections in 2019.
The Civic Body starts applying revised road cut costs in 2018 after orders issued by the Public Works Department that improves tariffs for road cuts based on schedule Delhi rates 2016, including index costs and cost centers.
This corporation mainly accepts the application for cutting the road under two heads – 20mm cut the tarpet tar cut and cut the concrete road.
Old tariff for cutting tar carpets 20mm and concrete road cuts each RS 1,660.5 per square meter and Rs 1,712.4 per square meter each revised as Rs 4,680.65 per square meter and Rs 6.252.24 per square meter In 2018.
The increase that recorded almost 3-4 times the original rate has caused many complaints between the population which is included in the more economically weaker section.
Further rates re regret for various types of road surfaces by PWD in 2019.
Currently the company costs RS 3.179.04 / SQM for 20mm open the surface of the carpet and Rs 5,473.44 per sqm for concrete road surfaces.
Civic body collection in terms of income from civil facilities, rent from rent on land and income from stadiums, city halls, etc.
And rent from other corporate property is only Rs 6.4 Crore.