Chief Municipal Officers (CMOs) and Revenue Inspectors of Urban local Bodies (UlBs) will have their month’s salary stopped now by the Urban Administration and Development Department if they are unable to meet revenue collection targets set by the Department.
The Department has also prepared a 12-month revenue collection parameter for UlBs to boost tax collection, officials informed.
It has also directed to cancel all incomplete and pending works approved in 2014-15.
Notably, SUDA is also working on development and implementation of an e-Governance model in UlBs of the State.
Notably, SUDA decided to prepare a Master Plan for implementation of Solid Waste Management Project in all the 168 Urban local Bodies (UlBs) of Chhattisgarh last year, officials informed.
It is also getting a feasibility study and Detailed Project Report (DPR) prepared for all UlBs in the State .
Meanwhile , it may be recalled that top brains currently being nurtured in the country’s premier business and technology schools are to get assignments to prepare urban development plans for civic bodies in Chhattisgarh.
The State Urban Administration and Development Department had decided to invite interns comprising mainly students and researchers from renowned institutions like IITs and IIMs who would help in preparing better plans for management of water supply, low cost housing, sewerage management, solid waste management, poverty eradication, study of various State and Central schemes related to vehicular traffic management in urban areas.
Moreover, as per official information released during May this year, under the AMRUT Mission the nine municipal corporations- Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg, Bhilai, Korba, Rajnandgaon, Raigarh, Jagdalpur and Ambikapur- have been selected wherein ‘Shahar Sandhan Yojna’ (City Research Scheme) will be launched.
The scheme is aimed at utilizing the educational knowledge of students and researchers in better development of cities, officials said.
SUDA has already issued directives to all nine Municipal Corporations in this regard.
The students in final year of graduation or post graduation studying Engineering, Management, Town Planning, Environment, Technology or Social Studies will be eligible for carrying out the studies. The research scholars can also take part in the studies in various municipal corporations.
Notably, in February this year, the Chhattisgarh government had decided to set up a ‘Waste to Energy’ power generation plant in Durg district.
The State Government intended to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) administration for jointly taking up the project, officials had informed.
The project is proposed to be undertaken under ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’ under the Government’s solid waste management project.
The proposed ‘Waste to Energy’ plant would utilise waste generated from municipal corporations of Bhilai, Durg, Bhilai-Charoda, two municipal councils mainly Jamul and Kumhari and three Nagar Panchayats mainly Utai, Patan and Gunderdehi.