The Housing and Urban Development Department has signed an MoU with the Janaagraha Team to improve revenue collection in the ULBs so as to make them self-sustainable.
The Janaagraha Team would conduct a Municipal Premier League (MPL) for the property (holding) tax collecting officials of the AMRUT-category cities which will increase the internal revenue collection.
The main objective of conducting MPL is to motivate tax officials, recognise their contributions through exciting contest format modeled on the IPL and in turn to improve the internal revenue generation of the ULBs.
For this, a preparatory meeting was held under the chairmanship of H and UD Principal Secretary G Mathi Vathanan. Municipal Administration Director Sangramjit Naik and other concerned officers were present. A detailed discussion was held on organisation of MPL.
An organising committee comprising Director Municipal Administration as Chairman and all the Municipal Commissioners of five municipal corporations, BMC , CMC , BeMC, RMC and SMC and Executive Officers of four municipalities of Puri, Baripada, Baleswar and Bhadrak was formed to facilitate, monitor and guide the entire event.
A workshop in this regard would be conducted on January 20, 2020 to kick-start the league and to provide capacity building training to tax officials. The tax collection process would start next day in the nine AMRUT cities and the actual league would be conducted from February 1 to March 31, 2020.
Weekly status meetings will be held with the organising committee to understand the progress of MPL. A maximum of 67 awards are to be distributed among the top performing officials after conclusion of the league.