(): Mini House of the Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has decided to make an increase of 0.25 per cent in the slab of transfer fee of the land and buildings to be purchased in the urban areas. But there will be no separate advertisement fee on the registry of the properties worth over `25 lakh, it decided.
In the meeting held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of the Mayor Ashok Tiwari, the Mini House discussed the transfer fee of the land and buildings to be purchased in the urban areas and decided to make a hike of 0.25 per cent in its slab. The executive committee of the VMC had in its meeting held on July 17 proposed an increase of 0.5 per cent in the highest slab of transfer fee but the committee had rejected its own proposal in the last meeting held in the first week of this month. The Mini House also decided to take no fee on the registry of the properties worth more than `25 lakh.
The Mini House also decided to realise no users charge from the shops selling tea and betel, while `1,500 per month will be realised as users charge from the restaurant spread out in 50 sq m, while ` 2,300 will be realised as users charge from the hotels with 30 rooms and `3,000 will be realised as users charge from the hospitals being run by trusts.
The Mini House decided to cancel the notice of the GIS survey which was issued earlier. It left the decision to give the land of Bharat Sevashram Sangh to the executive committee. The meeting also decided to open a metropolitan public health surveillance unit at CHC in Shivpur.
Besides, the Mini House also decided to appoint three employees in each ward to clean the sewage and so, 300 employees will be appointed in 100 wards. The tender for the appointment of employees will be made in a month. While, 5,000 sanitation employees will be appointed on the contractual basis to maintain the sanitation system, the Mini House decided, adding that the agency to make appointments will be selected through the GeM (Government e Marketplace) portal. Each sanitation employee will be given a stipend of Rs 14,000 per month and so, the VMC will afford an expenditure of `7 crore and `84 crore per month and per year respectively on the salary of these sanitation employees. It is learnt that as per standard, there should be 28 sanitation employees in the population of 10,000.