Indore municipal corporation that completed one year in office on Friday, gave a detailed accounts of works that it has carried in the past one year and presented its vision and the developmental works that it intends to complete in the coming years.
Patting its governance for successfully completing one year in office, Indore Mayor Malini Gaud talking to the mediapersons described as winning confidence of the city people as biggest achievement of the past one year. She also reeled out various initiatives taken by the Indore municipal corporation in the past one year which helped Indore find its place among top 20 smart cities and top 20 cleanest cities of the country.
Gaud said as a Mayor her first priority was to bring about financial discipline in the municipal corporation through series of effective measures including e-payment, e-tendering, bar coding of files of developmental works. This she said has helped municipal corporation to put a curb on financial malpractices.
The Mayor said that several initiatives taken by the corporation including easing of tax filing norms, have helped the corporation to increase its revenue by 25 per cent in the past one year and that too without imposing any additional taxes on the city people. As a result of our initiatives, over 31,000 enlightened people of the city opened their new accounts with the corporation for payment of taxes, she added.
Talking about property tax defaulters, she said works are being done to map the property of big account holders of the corporation. In addition to this the property tax payers of the city have also been provided opportunity to revaluate their property taxes on the basis of areas of their property. Our objective is to ensure that every property holder in the city has his accounts with the municipal corporation and in this regard we are also starting GIS survey of the property in the city, the Mayor said.
Talking about lack of development works in newly included 29 villages under the ambit of Indore municipal corporation, she said works on water supply, laying of drainage line, electricity in these villages would soon be started with the fund we have received from the state government under Amrit Yojna of the government of India.