Saffron Flag comes down for the last time
12:08 PM Posted by ukmad
The Saffron flag atop the old Belgaum city corporation (BCC) building came down for the last time never to be hoisted again.
From today the BCC will function from the new premises near the SP office. Only the national flag will be hoisted there.
So form today all the work from birth, death certificates to building permissions and property extract you will need to go to the new premises near the SP office.
There is no direct city bus to the new premises, citizens will have to get down at Kolhapur Cross or RTO circle and walk all the way to the corporation office.
At the moment there are not many shops like photocopying there but with time all will come up there.
Today there is the hearing of the Case field by corporator on the Mayor and the other officials in regards to the postponement of the Mayoral poll.
SPECIAL BUDGET GRANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF Belgaum
4:47 PM Posted by ukmad
The works include roads, UGD, Central Lighting works etc in Belgaum city. The works include very many roads of the city mainly roads that were not touched up during the Assembly session and those covered here again are for other works such as dividers and street lights.
See the complete Tender here.
The total cost of tenders is a whopping 9317.627 Lakhs. (This figure was gained after adding all the 31 packages)
The time limit for all the works is 9 months.
Last date for submitting application for tender forms document is 12-02-2009
Opening of Technical Bids by the Commissioner, Corporation of the City of Belgaum is on
02-03-2009 at 11.30 am or any other date will be intimated later.
I request all to go to the link above of the tender and see what kind of development work is planned for your area.
Belgaum Corporation failed to utilize funds
10:22 AM Posted by ukmad
The Government had announced Rs.100 crore in this financial year another 50 crore in the next year, but the Belgaum Corporation had failed to utilize the said funds. In fact the CM said that the BCC should have asked us for more funds.
Source: The Hindu
Belgaum City Corporation to get a new building today
11:08 AM Posted by ukmad
The new building of the Belgaum city corporation would be inaugurated today. All this is being done in a hurry as they want the CM to open the same.
The new building built next to the SP’s office in Malmaruti Extension is all ready for today. It has a big central hall ample parking space.
The building was constructed at a cost of Rs.9 crores 15 lakhs. The Marathi comparators have boycotted the event as the invitation letter was only in Kannada.
Civic bodies fail to use funds: but don’t fail to go on tours: Belgaum
5:22 PM Posted by ukmad
No one other than the Bangalore Bruhat Mahanagara Palike has shown their interest in utilizing these funds.
It’s almost end of December, none of these corporations have spent a single paisa yet. This attitude of the local bodies is being attributed to a combination of official apathy and the elected representatives’ lack of interest in preparing an action plan, as the guidelines made it compulsory to start permanent work instead of repairs.
The government had directed the civic bodies to utilize the funds for creation of infrastructure like roads, tanks, sewerage and drinking water facilities.
Even if now these local bodies plan to spend it, not more than Rs.50 cores can be spent.
Some of these civic bodies have not even prepared an action plan to spend the Rs 17 crore released in the first installment, the officer said. Sources said that Bellary and Hubli-Dharwad City Corporations have prepared an action plan for about Rs 60-65 crore.
After continuous pressure from the top, civic bodies of Mysore, Mangalore and Davanagere have promised to prepare an action plan for Rs 36 crore, Rs 25 crore and Rs 50 crore respectively. Gulbarga and Belgaum, however, have not even proposed to prepare such an action plan.
Our City corporation Mayor and other authorities only want to tour, give a momento to the CM and ask for more funds for development. They don’t want to make use of the funds already allotted to them. Rs.100 crores for a year is huge amount and if a plan was made and the money had been utilized, maybe there would have been some good roads.
As the Belgaum Corporation has no plans made the money Rs.100 crore will go back to the State govt. as un utilized. This is a very nice example of the working of the local civic bodies. Why nothing concrete was planned has to be seen.
Source: ExpressBuzz
Belgaum City Corporations online Public Grievance Redressal System
9:59 AM Posted by ukmad
The Belgaum city corporation website http://www.belgaumcity.gov.in/ has a Grievance section.
You can file an online complaint and you get a complaint number & you can check the status of the complaint online.
Mr.Gangadhar Patil, this blogs RTI editor had filed a complaint about the AD board on
the Nucleus mall in Bogarves. He is supposed to get an answer by today.Snapshot of complaint made
Only the file online complaint link is working. View Complaint Reports links does not open.
Hope the complaint made online are heard to or it will just another way to complain.
