New Delhi Feb 18 PTI The standing committee of the north corporation on Friday approved a proposal on regularisation of sanitation workers engaged from April 1998 to March 2003 officials saidThe move comes ahead of the civic polls in Delhi due in AprilThe proposal will now await the nod of the House of the BJP-led North Delhi Municipal Corporation NDMCThe panel in its meeting held at the Civic Centre approved the proposal on regularisation of sanitation workers who were engaged from April 1998 to March 2003 officials saidThe erstwhile unified Muncipal Corporation of Delhi MCD was trifurcated into North South and East corporations or NDMC SDMC and EDMC in 2012The proposal says that the erstwhile MCD had in 1978 approved regularisation of daily-wage employees in a phasedmannerThe NDMC had in 2021 approved regularisation of substitute or daily-wage sanitation workers who were engaged from April 1 1998 to March 31 2003 with effect from April 1 2006 after converting them into daily wager employees with effect from March 31 2006 in the pay scale of Rs 2550-3200 against the vacant posts lying in zones concerned in a phase-wise manner it saysNow the matter has been discussed with higher authorities and it was decided to place a fresh preamble for seeking approval of the corporation for regularisation in next phase it addedOut of 2673 vacant posts in the six zones of the NDMC 500 of these are proposed to be filled in the first phase it saidIn addition the remaining substitute sanitation workers engaged up to March 31 2003 would also be regularised as and when vacant posts are available the proposal saysBesides a proposal to install solar power panels on rooftops of various municipal buildings or lands in partnership with an agency with a revenue sharing model was also approved officials saidMeanwhile a senior official said a nominated AAP member raised the issue of some sealed properties in Civil Lines area during the panel meet on Friday following which Standing Committee Chairman Jogi Ram Jain acknowledged itLater the municipal commissioner suggested that a small committee having chieg legal officer chief engineer building and another member could be set up to look if there are ways of dealing properties according to the norms prescribed by the SC-mandated monitoring committee on sealingPTI KND SRY
New Delhi Nov 26 PTI The Aam Aadmi Party members on Friday took out a candle march against the BJP-ruled municipal corporations over non-payment of salaries to doctors and paramedical staffSenior doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run hospitals and other facilities are set to go on an indefinite strike from Monday over the issue of non-payment of salaries and arrearsThe Aam Aadmi Party barricaded the Civic Centre and took out a candle marchThe AAPs MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak said the BJP-ruled municipal corporation has not paid salaries to doctors and paramedical staff for the past several monthsDue to this everyone has gone on strike and the public has been deprived of health services he added Leader of Opposition in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation House Vikas Goel said the mayor left the office early they could not submit a memorandum to him Now the memorandum will be submitted tomorrow But he cannot get away like this Our struggle will continue he saidLeader of Opposition in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation House Prem Chauhan claimed that due to the BJPs negligence dengue cases rose rapidly in Delhi and now they are not paying salaries to the doctors treating those patients PTI SLB NSD NSD NSD
New Delhi Nov 23 PTI Seeking to augment its revenue the South Delhi Municipal Corporation SDMC on Tuesday proposed in its budget to increase property tax levied on residential and commercial properties and reduce the number of rate slabs from threeResidential commercial and non-residential plots of up to 150 sqm are currently divided into three categories in the city -- A-B C-E and F-H categoriesI propose that for the financial year 2022-23 the number of categories should be reduced from three to two A-E and F-H in this category said SDMC Commissioner Gyanesh Bharati while presenting revised budget estimates for 2021-22 and budget estimates for 2022-23 at the Civic Centre hereThe budget has proposed increase in property tax as follows 14 per cent tax in for residential properties in A-E category and 12 per cent in F-H category Presently 15 per cent tax is charged in A-B category 11 per cent in C-E category and seven per cent in F-H category a senior official saidSimilar for commercial category in A-D category it is proposed to be 15 per cent and 12 per cent in E-H category and for special category it is 20 per cent the official saidThe current rates are 15 per cent tax in A-B category 12 per cent in C-E category and ten per cent in F-H category the official saidBharati said that property tax rates in A through E slabs have not been raised in the last 10 yearsThe commissioner also said that to mark the occasion of 75th year of Indias Independence Shaheedi Park and Bollywood Park are to be developed on the lines of the Bharat Darshan ParkThe budget comes ahead of civic polls due next yearLater the commissioner also took questions from reportersAsked if the proposal to increase property tax is not approved by the legislative wing of the corporation how will it meet the revenue requirements Bharati said We will then have to go for the PPP modelAccording to the budget SDMC has been disposing of 51 lakh metric tonne legacy waste and is likely to dispose of 100 per cent legacy waste by December 2023Our Swachh rank will improve once we do 100 per cent waste collection segregation and processing he told reporters PTI KND ANB ANB
New Delhi Oct 22 PTI Amid a spike in dengue cases the three civic bodies here have intensified their fogging and spraying drives even as officials claimed that there was enough stock of insecticides and medicines to combat the vector-borne diseasesThe national capital has seen a surge in dengue cases in the last two weeks with the first death due to it was reported on MondayAccording to a civic report on vector-borne diseases released on Monday one death due to dengue and a total of 723denguecases have been recorded this season till October 16 which is highest case count since 2018 for the same periodOf the total count of dengue cases recorded in Delhi this year 382 have been reported this month till October 16 which amount to nearly 52 per cent of the cumulative casesAll three municipal corporation NDMC SDMC and EDMC have intensified their campaign to tackle rising cases of dengue in the cityEast Delhi MayorShyam Sunder Aggrawal on Friday held a meeting with senior officials of the public health department regarding the dengue situation officials saidThe mayor ordered deployment of three jetting machines each in both the zones of the EDMC from the DEMS department of environment management services for spraying anti-larval medicine in drains and over stagnated water in the areaConsidering the gravity of the situation there is a need to make maximum use of the available resources he saidThe East Delhi Municipal Corporation EDMC on Thursday had said it had suspended all surgeries except those for deliveries at its Swami Dayanand Hospital due to the rising number of dengue patients at the facilityAggrawal said there is continuous fogging in the area but there is also rise in cases of dengue which is why he has directed teams to spray larvicides in drains and increase the frequency of fogging adding that senior officers should ensure availability of medicines for fogging and spraying as wellChairman of the Standing Committee of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation Jogi Ram Jain said we are stocked up well in all six zonesOnly the central store at the Civic Centre had zero stock of medicines insecticides as reported yesterday Other stores in zones are stocked up for at least 2-3 weeks and we will procure more as the need arises he claimedJain said the NDMC stores have enough stock of insecticides used for fogging or spraying purposes as well as medicines used for treatment of patients suffering from malaria or other generic ailmentsOur staff are carrying out intensive fogging in all areas including JJ colonies and slums and on an average fogging is being done twice in an area in a week he addedSenior officials at the South Delhi Municipal Corporation also claimed that enough medicine stock was available to tackle malaria dengue and other vector-borne diseasesInsecticides and larvicides used for fogging and spraying are also in enough stock for this season officials saidChairman of Standing Committee of EDMC Beer Singh Panwar said dengue can be controlled by a solid action plan and collective effortsHe directed that nala beldars should be given proper training by the department so they can been engaged in prevention of vector-borne diseasesSingh suggested that help of ASHA workers can also be taken for fever surveillance in the areasThe single death due to dengue reported in city so far was of a woman aged about 35 who lived in Metro Colony in Sarita Vihar area of south DelhiHours after the reporting of the first death due to dengue from an area under its jurisdictionthe public health department of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation had taken vector-control measures in the Metro Colony area and the locality had been kept under surveillance by field staffIn2015 the city had witnessed a massive outbreak of dengue when the number of such cases reported has crossed 10600 in October itself making it the worst outbreak of the vector-borne disease in the national capital since 1996 PTI KND AKM TDS TDS
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