Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 15: In the maiden General House meeting of the newly constituted Jammu Municipal Corporation, all the Corporators cutting across party lines pressed hard for a suitable honorarium of around Rs 40 thousand to them besides highlighting issues of public interest.
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In the marathon meeting, which lasted for more than seven hours, all the Corporators drew attention towards general issues of their respective wards and also listed suggestions for improvement in the functioning of JMC to keep Jammu city clean and green.
They also stressed for extending 74th Amendment of the Panchayti Raj to J&K for more empowerment of the Local Bodies. A number of Corporators from different political parties and independents also highlighted the issue of honorarium to them. They stressed said that a minimum of Rs 40-50 thousand honorarium should be given to each Corporator for carrying out their duties.
The Corporators also stressed that small works of emergency nature should be carried out without inviting tenders as the exercise involved in inviting bids delays emergency nature works.
In the presence of Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta, Deputy Mayor Purnima Sharma, JMC Commissioner Pankaj Magotra and Secretary Sunaina Mehta, each Corporator was given around five minutes to speak and list suggestions for better functioning of the JMC.
The meeting began with circulation of agenda, comprising 11 items, which included opening of school for children of the Municipal employees, opening of dispensary for the Municipal employees, speed up recruitment of SKCs, issuance of promotion orders of official cleared in earlier DPC, beautification of JMC walls, development of `No Parking Zone’ in JMC premises, ensure plantation in and around JMC, procurement of sufficient street lights, outsourcing of autos, deployment of SKCs for night sanitation and animal birth control programme.
All the agenda items were unanimously passed by the House even as a few Corporators registered their reservations over not circulating the agenda prior to the meeting.
The General House also agreed to the suggestion for at least one meeting in a month. First Monday of each month was selected for holding General House meeting.
Earlier, after introductory remarks by Secretary Sunaina Mehta, Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta addressed the House and appealed all the Corporators to list suggestions for improving the functioning of JMC. He stressed that clean and green Jammu should be the objective of everyone and he was confident that each Corporator would leave no stone unturned for achieving the target.
He said that people of Jammu have great expectation from their Corporators as JMC elections have been held after a long gap of 13 years.
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