Mangaluru, Sep 27: In a major step towards for effective administration, the Council of Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has approved the creation of three zones in the civic body. The zonal offices are expected to start functioning from October 15.
The decision was taken at a special meeting chaired by Mayor K Harinath. The zonal headquarter designated for the zone 1 is in Surathkal. The offices of zones 2 and 3 will function from MCC headquarters at Lalbagh instead of Kadri sub office that was designated for zone 3.
As per the cadre and recruitment rules for staff of city corporations, which came into effect in 2011-12, corporations should form zones for better administration.
MCC Commissioner Mohammed Nazeer said that until three zonal officers are appointed, the development officers will act as in-charge zonal officers. The zonal offices will distribute birth and death certificates within the time frame, issue licence, completion certificates for the residential complexes that are within 500 square meter area, issue of notices to violators under violation of KMC Act 1976 Section 321 (1), (2) and (3).
The zonal office will also register/transfer the khata of property upto Rs 50 lakh value, issue door numbers to buildings within 1,500 sq ft, initiate measures to remove illegal hoardings, issue trade licences to units of 200 sq ft area and renew trade licences among others. “It is left to the discretion of the commissioner to delegate the power to zonal officers,” said the commissioner.
Office automation
Mangaluru City Corporation also approved a Rs 1.54-crore proposal to provide 19 client services, including payment of property tax and water bill online, and make the offices of the corporation paper less by developing a software.
Once the software is operational, there will not be manual files and people could use the website of the corporation to use online client services and it would serve as the interface to the public.
Of the Rs. 1.54 crore, Rs. 94.61 lakh has been reserved for developing software and Rs. 60 lakh for purchase of hardware.
Some of the other client services planned to be brought under online are applying for water supply connection and sewage connection; applying for door number; registration and issue of khata; applying for birth and death certificates; applying for trade licence and building licence; and applying for occupation certificate.
It has planned to make the refund of deposits under engineering, revenue and town planning departments online. It also includes online revenue (bill) collection from various sources.
The proposal was part of complete automation of the offices of the corporation planned in future. The meeting authorised Keonics, a Karnataka government undertaking, the task of calling for bids for the first phase of automation.
An agenda tabled in the meeting said that the civic body had reserved Rs. 3.44 crore in the 2014-15 budget for the purpose.
The council of the corporation in its May 31, 2014, meeting had approved the proposal on complete automation. The proposal approved on Monday was part of it.
With 60 wards, Mangaluru City Corporation caters to the needs of around five lakh people in its limits.
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