The Board of Hazaribagh Municipal Corporation has passed a proposal to exempt the fine in the name of non-availability of water harvesting facility in the houses for at least next one year.
Chairman Anjali Kumari said, “We will send this proposal to the state government and hope that the government will certainly give the denizens a chance to construct water harvesting facility in their houses in next one year.”
This proposal was passed by the Municipal Board because when the local tax collecting agency started charging this fine with holding tax, the denizens started opposing it and the district BJP unit openly came against this decision. The discontent among the denizens created a fear amongst the ward councilors because the municipal election is scheduled to be held in the last of 2017.
MlA Manish Jaiswal also interfered in this matter and then the executive officer issued a letter to the agency to not take fine in the name of water harvesting facility till the municipal board makes necessary arrangements for it.
In this much awaited board meeting the councilors raised the matter of charging water tax from the denizens of that area also where the municipal pipeline connection has yet not reached. In this meeting it was decided that board will not take water charge from the households of those areas where this facility is not available. It was also decided that the complaints regarding the bad behavior of outsourcing agency will also be probed.
The Chairman informed that dumping of garbage collected from the town area has been started in the procured piece of land situated in Mandi village and very soon its recycling work will start there. She also informed that the board has fixed a fee of Rs 2500 for use of newly erected electrical crematorium situated at Khirgaon.
In this meeting decisions regarding preparation of new list of the beneficiaries of Prime Minister Housing Scheme, construction of marketing complex near Meetha Talab from the aid provided by 14th Finance Commission and beautification and renovation of Shahid Nirmal Mahto Park was also passed.
Vice Chairman Anand Dev, Executive Officer Ashish Kumar, Assistant Engineer Beshlal Ram, City Manager Rajesh Prasad and almost all ward councilors were present in this meeting.