Ludhiana: After increasing the water supply and sewerage level, the authority of citizenship faces difficult times in collecting contributions for this financial year.
A small portion of the population has advanced for payment.
Last year, MC has collected annual charges of occupants in September by offering a 10% discount.
But this year the bill was sent for six months because the accusation increased, the collection was still low.
Until September 30, people will get a 10% discount.
For this financial year, starting April 1 to September 16, the Civic body has recovered Rs 9 Crore from a bowl while the target is around Rs 100 Crore.
Only 30,476 people had paid while around 1.38 lakh bills were sent by officials.
Another reason for the delay in recovery of contributions is that the bill is distributed late.
Officials claim whether the authorities make it possible to cover the household in the area of ​​125 square meters, then they will recover further.
A total of 1.48 lakh consumers are excluded from the water supply and waterways bills.
Even after passing the resolution at the General House MC meeting to turn back the exception, the Mayor of Balarn Sandhu announced his continuation under pressure from the opposition parties.
Although there was no written command, officials claimed because the election, the political boss made a decision and once the poll ended, people had to pay even if they were under the excluded category.
The Civic body has taken loans from the World Bank for canal-based water supply projects, the conditions owned by the water supply measured.
Officially said at least a 60% increase in water supply and waterways contributions and this is the reason they send bills for the first six months and in the coming days people will advance to clean their contributions.
The Superintending Ravinder Garg engineer cannot be contacted for comments.
MC Dusin’s note that is long is delayed, the total delayed total continues to increase every year and currently Rs 465 Crore.
To end the pendencies, the mayor has formed the council committee and officials to resolve cases of disputes, but the panel cannot do anything.
Some meetings occur, but the pendency has increased more.
At the beginning of the current term of office of the regime, The Firthency was around Rs 350 Crore, but now it has increased to Rs 465 Crore.
Deputy Deputy Mayor of Shyam Sunder Malhotra, who is among the Committee members, “There is a need to renew the delayed amount as this number is not this high.
In the last few meetings, I tried to resolve disputes, but the effort did not produce fruit.
There is a need to update the whole system.
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