Councillors to get `2 crores
The municipal councillors, across party lines, have got what they had wished for. They will now be allocated `2 crores for the current fiscal year as well as financial year 2011-12. The announcement to this effect was made in the budget speech of standing committee chairman, Yogender Chandolia, in the MCD House on Monday. Earlier, the councillors were allocated `50 lakhs each for the development work in their areas.
If the MCD House finally passes the new proposal, every councillor would get an additional `1.5 crores within the next 50-odd days.
Although, the move would put an extra burden of `952 crores over the next two years, which the cash-strapped MCD may find difficult to disburse, it would give the councillors funds which they could use to showcase their “work” before the election year.
Mr Chandolia said in his speech that the councillors needed something with which they could go before the electorate and ask for votes.
Last week, the Congress councillors had alleged that despite the announcement about an increase in the allocation of development funds from `50 lakhs to `1 crore, the same was not being disbursed by MCD officials when they approached them with their estimates.
Mr Chandolia also said that many of functions being taken up by the Delhi government like power and slum should be transferred to the MCD as these things were the task of local civic body and not the state government.
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