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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF GENERAL HOUSE OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION CHANDIGARH HELD ON 12022016 AT 1100 AM IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL OF THE CORPORATION
The following were present
SarvShSmt-
Mayor 1 Arun Sood 2 B Purushartha IAS Commissioner
3 Sh Davesh Moudgil Sr Deputy Mayor
4 Hardeep Singh Deputy Mayor
5 Prof Aruna Goel Councillor
6 Dr Amrit Tewari Councillor
7 Babu Lal IAS (Retd) Councillor
8 Maj DS Sandhu (Retd) Councillor
9 MP Kohli Councillor
10 Sat Paul Bansal Councillor
11 Dr Shagufta Parveen Councillor
12 Surinder Bahga Councillor
13 Saurabh Joshi Councillor
14 Pardeep Chhabra Councillor
15 Asha Kumari Jaswal Councillor
16 Raj Bala Malik Councillor
17 Sat Parkash Aggarwal Councillor
18 Heera Negi Councillor
19 Poonam Sharma Councillor
20 Rajesh Kumar Gupta Councillor
21 Gurbax Rawat Councillor
22 Sheela Devi Councillor
23 Darshan Kumar Councillor
24 Harjinder Kaur Councillor
25 Harphool Chander Kalyan Councillor
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26 Satinder Singh Councillor
27 Naresh Kumar Councillor
28 Satish Kumar Councillor
29 Subhash Chawla Councillor
30 Jannat Jahan Ul Haq Councillor
31 Rajiv Gupta PCS Secretary
The following Officers also attended the meeting -
SarvShSmt-
1 Varinder Chaudhary Joint Commissioner-II
2 Mukesh Anand Chief Engineer
3 NP Sharma SE (BampR)
4 PS Bhatti MOH
5 Uma Shankar Sharma CAO
6 PK Aggarwal XEN (Roads-I)
7 Jai Pal Singh XEN (Roads-II)
8 Arjeet Singh XEN (Roads-III)
9 Harish Saini XEN (PH Div NoII)
10 BK Dhawan XEN (PH Div No-III)
11Gulshan Kumar XEN (PH Div NoIV)
12 Krishan Pal Singh XEN (Horticulture)
13 Dr MS Kamboj Supdt Slaughter House
At the outset the Secretary welcomed the officers members amp media
persons present in the House
The Mayor apprised the House that 10 Army soldiers had sacrificed their
lives in siachen glacier therefore the House should observe two minutes silence to pay
the homage to the departed souls
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The House observed two minutes silence
The Mayor congratulated the members of the House officers amp media
persons on festival of Basant Panchmi He further said that after following the provisions
of Section 86 of the Act the budget had been prepared for the year 2016-17 He further
said that as per provisions of Section 86 this budget was to be prepared in the first week
of February He thanked the team of the Accounts Branch for the preparation of budget
in time He thanked the Commissioner for guidance to prepare the realistic budget He
further said that it had been tried best to incorporate the suggestions by inviting online
suggestions from the public amp councillors He further said that a hard copy of the
proposed budget was provided to the RWA amp Vyapar Mandal also He further said that it
has been tried to prepare a public friendly budget as the suggestions from the public had
been received in this regard He further said that the proposed budget was discussed
head-wise in detail on 5th February 2016 in the meeting of FampCC Now today the budget
has been brought in the House for its approval and the live telecast is also being done on
the website of MC for the facilitation of public He further said that after the approval of
the House the time will be taken from the Administrator for its final approval so that the
grants could be available in time
There was a heated exchange between Sh Davesh Moudgil and Sh
Pardeep Chhabra on the issue of election
Sh Subhash Chawla said that the Mayor had not addressed the House
before the Budget speech
The Mayor started the Budget speech and apprised the House that a
provision of Rs25000 crore had been made in the Budget for the 5th amp 6th phase of
water supply from Water Works Kajauli so that the shortage of water could be solved
He further read out the Budget Speech Head-wise in detail as under-
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1 Augmentation of city water supply scheme Kajauli 2 Strengthening of Sewerage System 3 Storm Water Drainage System 4 ConstructionRenovation of Public Toilets 5 Supply of Tertiary Treated Water 6 Improvement of Roadsbridgesunderpassesparking areas 7 Civic works 8 Electrification 9 Horticulture 10MOH 11Fire amp Emergency Services 12Special component plan for Schedule Caste 13Strengthening of IT Department 14Shortage of manpower
He further said that Beti Bachao Beti Padao Abhiyan would be our priority
He further said that the Baby kit to the mothers would be provided continuously He
further apprised the House that about 45 suggestions for budget had been received from
the public through face-book website amp hard copy and all the suggestions had already
been discussed in the meeting of FampCC The suitable amp valuable suggestions have
been incorporated in the present budget He read out the budget speech and placed the
budget before the House He further said that although the present meeting is a special
meeting for the budget only yet another important agenda also has been included in the
transaction regarding the election of five members of street vending committee If the
House permits the said agenda should also be considered
Sh Satinder Singh said that under Section 86 of the Municipal Act the
budget is to be passed in the first week of February so that the same can be sent to the
Administration in the end of February for approval He appreciated the efforts of worthy
Mayor for early discussion on the budget in the FampCC and House He thanked the
Commissioner amp team of the account branch for the realistic budget
Smt Harjinder Kaur congratulated the Mayor for inviting the online
suggestions from the public regarding the proposed budget and it was the historic step of
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the Corporation She further said that she had gone through the budget and it has come
to her notice that it is very simple in nature and every component has been given focus
She further said that the Mayor involved himself practically in Swachha Bharat Abhiyan
She further said that the budget demand had been incorporated in the budget as the
provision of special component plan for scheduled castes had been done She further
requested for women friendly budget She insisted for the proper lighting in the dark
area especially where the educational institutions are situated She further insisted for
focus on villages community parking amp maintenance of roads water pipelines amp
sewerage etc in this budget She further suggested that horticulture wing of the
Corporation should be strengthened Lastly she emphasized for 100 utilization of
annual budget
Sh Babu Lal said that the preparation of budget is a difficult task He
appreciated the factorsprovisions made in the budget He further said that we had been
preparing the realistic budget from the beginning but approximately 60 budget was
used to be utilized He further said that the budget under the non-plan head could not be
increased or decreased abnormally it varies around 10 from the budget of previous
year He further said that the plan budget should be realistic which can be exhausted
within the financial year He insisted for the budget provision of atleast 4 marriage
palaces in the city to facilitate the public of Chandigarh and save the excise and other
taxes going to other states also He further suggested that the beautiful flower plants
should be planted on the road sides for the greenery and beautification of the city
The Secretary apprised the House that a foreign delegation consisting of
28 members from 16 countries is also present in the House who had come to attend a
course sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs The course is on planning amp
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management of Urban Development Services He extended the welcome to the
delegation on behalf of the House
Sh Satish Kainth welcomed the delegation He further appreciated the
efforts of Mayor amp officers for preparing the realistic budget for the year 2016-17 He
further told the House that the population of the SC is 171 of the total population of the
city He further said that in all the Corporation of the country a special head is created for the
welfare of this community ie special component plan head for SC He further said that he had
demanded 2014-2015 year also for the creation of special component plan head for SC but no
action was taken at that time He thanked the Mayor for the provision of special component
plan for SC in the budget after obtaining the NOC from the Social Welfare Department
UT Chandigarh He further suggested that the information regarding expenditure under
non-plan head should also be brought in the concerned committees He further said that
in the action taken report at the time of former CMC it was decided that the area
councillor amp concerned committee would be apprised with the expenditure incurred under
non-plan head but no action had been taken so far He appreciated the suggestion of
worthy CMC regarding the installation of sensor based lights in the city
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) congratulated the Mayor Commissioner amp
Officers for the preparation of budget in time and for the invitation of suggestions from the
public He further highlighted the receipts of the Corporation which were not according
to the target He further said that the properties of the Corporation had been lying vacant
since long time these approximately 300 sites had not been leased out or rented out
He further said that the rent from the Verka amp Vita Milk booths was not being recovered
regularly He further said that the house tax was imposed in the year 2013 but it had
not been implemented meticulously He further said that we should ascertain the
defaulters and the house tax should be recovered from them He suggested for
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hundred percent recovery of the house tax or other tax and rent He further said that
commercial tax was imposed on the basis of survey of commercial properties He further
said that commercial properties had increased but no property tax was being levied on
them He further apprised that 50 parking lots had been laying un-auctioned which
was a great loss to the Corporation He insisted for the recovery of the arrear of water
bills He highlighted the dues against the Government Department of Haryana Punjab amp
UT He suggested for the replacement of faulty water meters He further said that a
policy had been framed for keeping the 12 ft vacant space in the neighbourhood parks
but some neighbourhood parks had been left out He insisted that the policy should be
implemented meticulously He further said that 2 under passes had been approved and
suggested for another under pass on the round abouts of Sector-21 22 34 amp 35 He
demanded that the proper utilization of cycle tracks so that the funds incurred on the
cycle tracks could be utilized He suggested that all the slow moving vehicles should use
the cycle tracks This practice would avoid the accidents He further suggested that the
slip roads should be constructed from the suitable distance of roundabouts He
demanded that the survey of all the slip roads should be got done and the wrongs if any
had been done should be rectified He suggested for the good material for jogging
tracks He further said that the provision for construction of cattle pound had been made
in the budget therefore the number of cattle catchers amp vehicles should be increased
He further said that all the public toilets in Sector-35 were non-functional He further said
that the grease trap had been constructed by the hoteliers on the Govt land which were
demolished by the MC He further said that the grease traps should be constructed on
the land of hotels The pipes of sewerage and flood water are mixed and due to that the
foul smell has been emanating He insisted that the public health wing of the MC
should be strengthened to remove the bottlenecks in its system He further said that
there was no co-ordination between the officers of public health wing and regular
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SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
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lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
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Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
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that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
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never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
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about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
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Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
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The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
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The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
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thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
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sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
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The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
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AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
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festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
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26 Satinder Singh Councillor
27 Naresh Kumar Councillor
28 Satish Kumar Councillor
29 Subhash Chawla Councillor
30 Jannat Jahan Ul Haq Councillor
31 Rajiv Gupta PCS Secretary
The following Officers also attended the meeting -
SarvShSmt-
1 Varinder Chaudhary Joint Commissioner-II
2 Mukesh Anand Chief Engineer
3 NP Sharma SE (BampR)
4 PS Bhatti MOH
5 Uma Shankar Sharma CAO
6 PK Aggarwal XEN (Roads-I)
7 Jai Pal Singh XEN (Roads-II)
8 Arjeet Singh XEN (Roads-III)
9 Harish Saini XEN (PH Div NoII)
10 BK Dhawan XEN (PH Div No-III)
11Gulshan Kumar XEN (PH Div NoIV)
12 Krishan Pal Singh XEN (Horticulture)
13 Dr MS Kamboj Supdt Slaughter House
At the outset the Secretary welcomed the officers members amp media
persons present in the House
The Mayor apprised the House that 10 Army soldiers had sacrificed their
lives in siachen glacier therefore the House should observe two minutes silence to pay
the homage to the departed souls
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The House observed two minutes silence
The Mayor congratulated the members of the House officers amp media
persons on festival of Basant Panchmi He further said that after following the provisions
of Section 86 of the Act the budget had been prepared for the year 2016-17 He further
said that as per provisions of Section 86 this budget was to be prepared in the first week
of February He thanked the team of the Accounts Branch for the preparation of budget
in time He thanked the Commissioner for guidance to prepare the realistic budget He
further said that it had been tried best to incorporate the suggestions by inviting online
suggestions from the public amp councillors He further said that a hard copy of the
proposed budget was provided to the RWA amp Vyapar Mandal also He further said that it
has been tried to prepare a public friendly budget as the suggestions from the public had
been received in this regard He further said that the proposed budget was discussed
head-wise in detail on 5th February 2016 in the meeting of FampCC Now today the budget
has been brought in the House for its approval and the live telecast is also being done on
the website of MC for the facilitation of public He further said that after the approval of
the House the time will be taken from the Administrator for its final approval so that the
grants could be available in time
There was a heated exchange between Sh Davesh Moudgil and Sh
Pardeep Chhabra on the issue of election
Sh Subhash Chawla said that the Mayor had not addressed the House
before the Budget speech
The Mayor started the Budget speech and apprised the House that a
provision of Rs25000 crore had been made in the Budget for the 5th amp 6th phase of
water supply from Water Works Kajauli so that the shortage of water could be solved
He further read out the Budget Speech Head-wise in detail as under-
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1 Augmentation of city water supply scheme Kajauli 2 Strengthening of Sewerage System 3 Storm Water Drainage System 4 ConstructionRenovation of Public Toilets 5 Supply of Tertiary Treated Water 6 Improvement of Roadsbridgesunderpassesparking areas 7 Civic works 8 Electrification 9 Horticulture 10MOH 11Fire amp Emergency Services 12Special component plan for Schedule Caste 13Strengthening of IT Department 14Shortage of manpower
He further said that Beti Bachao Beti Padao Abhiyan would be our priority
He further said that the Baby kit to the mothers would be provided continuously He
further apprised the House that about 45 suggestions for budget had been received from
the public through face-book website amp hard copy and all the suggestions had already
been discussed in the meeting of FampCC The suitable amp valuable suggestions have
been incorporated in the present budget He read out the budget speech and placed the
budget before the House He further said that although the present meeting is a special
meeting for the budget only yet another important agenda also has been included in the
transaction regarding the election of five members of street vending committee If the
House permits the said agenda should also be considered
Sh Satinder Singh said that under Section 86 of the Municipal Act the
budget is to be passed in the first week of February so that the same can be sent to the
Administration in the end of February for approval He appreciated the efforts of worthy
Mayor for early discussion on the budget in the FampCC and House He thanked the
Commissioner amp team of the account branch for the realistic budget
Smt Harjinder Kaur congratulated the Mayor for inviting the online
suggestions from the public regarding the proposed budget and it was the historic step of
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the Corporation She further said that she had gone through the budget and it has come
to her notice that it is very simple in nature and every component has been given focus
She further said that the Mayor involved himself practically in Swachha Bharat Abhiyan
She further said that the budget demand had been incorporated in the budget as the
provision of special component plan for scheduled castes had been done She further
requested for women friendly budget She insisted for the proper lighting in the dark
area especially where the educational institutions are situated She further insisted for
focus on villages community parking amp maintenance of roads water pipelines amp
sewerage etc in this budget She further suggested that horticulture wing of the
Corporation should be strengthened Lastly she emphasized for 100 utilization of
annual budget
Sh Babu Lal said that the preparation of budget is a difficult task He
appreciated the factorsprovisions made in the budget He further said that we had been
preparing the realistic budget from the beginning but approximately 60 budget was
used to be utilized He further said that the budget under the non-plan head could not be
increased or decreased abnormally it varies around 10 from the budget of previous
year He further said that the plan budget should be realistic which can be exhausted
within the financial year He insisted for the budget provision of atleast 4 marriage
palaces in the city to facilitate the public of Chandigarh and save the excise and other
taxes going to other states also He further suggested that the beautiful flower plants
should be planted on the road sides for the greenery and beautification of the city
The Secretary apprised the House that a foreign delegation consisting of
28 members from 16 countries is also present in the House who had come to attend a
course sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs The course is on planning amp
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management of Urban Development Services He extended the welcome to the
delegation on behalf of the House
Sh Satish Kainth welcomed the delegation He further appreciated the
efforts of Mayor amp officers for preparing the realistic budget for the year 2016-17 He
further told the House that the population of the SC is 171 of the total population of the
city He further said that in all the Corporation of the country a special head is created for the
welfare of this community ie special component plan head for SC He further said that he had
demanded 2014-2015 year also for the creation of special component plan head for SC but no
action was taken at that time He thanked the Mayor for the provision of special component
plan for SC in the budget after obtaining the NOC from the Social Welfare Department
UT Chandigarh He further suggested that the information regarding expenditure under
non-plan head should also be brought in the concerned committees He further said that
in the action taken report at the time of former CMC it was decided that the area
councillor amp concerned committee would be apprised with the expenditure incurred under
non-plan head but no action had been taken so far He appreciated the suggestion of
worthy CMC regarding the installation of sensor based lights in the city
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) congratulated the Mayor Commissioner amp
Officers for the preparation of budget in time and for the invitation of suggestions from the
public He further highlighted the receipts of the Corporation which were not according
to the target He further said that the properties of the Corporation had been lying vacant
since long time these approximately 300 sites had not been leased out or rented out
He further said that the rent from the Verka amp Vita Milk booths was not being recovered
regularly He further said that the house tax was imposed in the year 2013 but it had
not been implemented meticulously He further said that we should ascertain the
defaulters and the house tax should be recovered from them He suggested for
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hundred percent recovery of the house tax or other tax and rent He further said that
commercial tax was imposed on the basis of survey of commercial properties He further
said that commercial properties had increased but no property tax was being levied on
them He further apprised that 50 parking lots had been laying un-auctioned which
was a great loss to the Corporation He insisted for the recovery of the arrear of water
bills He highlighted the dues against the Government Department of Haryana Punjab amp
UT He suggested for the replacement of faulty water meters He further said that a
policy had been framed for keeping the 12 ft vacant space in the neighbourhood parks
but some neighbourhood parks had been left out He insisted that the policy should be
implemented meticulously He further said that 2 under passes had been approved and
suggested for another under pass on the round abouts of Sector-21 22 34 amp 35 He
demanded that the proper utilization of cycle tracks so that the funds incurred on the
cycle tracks could be utilized He suggested that all the slow moving vehicles should use
the cycle tracks This practice would avoid the accidents He further suggested that the
slip roads should be constructed from the suitable distance of roundabouts He
demanded that the survey of all the slip roads should be got done and the wrongs if any
had been done should be rectified He suggested for the good material for jogging
tracks He further said that the provision for construction of cattle pound had been made
in the budget therefore the number of cattle catchers amp vehicles should be increased
He further said that all the public toilets in Sector-35 were non-functional He further said
that the grease trap had been constructed by the hoteliers on the Govt land which were
demolished by the MC He further said that the grease traps should be constructed on
the land of hotels The pipes of sewerage and flood water are mixed and due to that the
foul smell has been emanating He insisted that the public health wing of the MC
should be strengthened to remove the bottlenecks in its system He further said that
there was no co-ordination between the officers of public health wing and regular
8
SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
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Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
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Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
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The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
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AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
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festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
3
The House observed two minutes silence
The Mayor congratulated the members of the House officers amp media
persons on festival of Basant Panchmi He further said that after following the provisions
of Section 86 of the Act the budget had been prepared for the year 2016-17 He further
said that as per provisions of Section 86 this budget was to be prepared in the first week
of February He thanked the team of the Accounts Branch for the preparation of budget
in time He thanked the Commissioner for guidance to prepare the realistic budget He
further said that it had been tried best to incorporate the suggestions by inviting online
suggestions from the public amp councillors He further said that a hard copy of the
proposed budget was provided to the RWA amp Vyapar Mandal also He further said that it
has been tried to prepare a public friendly budget as the suggestions from the public had
been received in this regard He further said that the proposed budget was discussed
head-wise in detail on 5th February 2016 in the meeting of FampCC Now today the budget
has been brought in the House for its approval and the live telecast is also being done on
the website of MC for the facilitation of public He further said that after the approval of
the House the time will be taken from the Administrator for its final approval so that the
grants could be available in time
There was a heated exchange between Sh Davesh Moudgil and Sh
Pardeep Chhabra on the issue of election
Sh Subhash Chawla said that the Mayor had not addressed the House
before the Budget speech
The Mayor started the Budget speech and apprised the House that a
provision of Rs25000 crore had been made in the Budget for the 5th amp 6th phase of
water supply from Water Works Kajauli so that the shortage of water could be solved
He further read out the Budget Speech Head-wise in detail as under-
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1 Augmentation of city water supply scheme Kajauli 2 Strengthening of Sewerage System 3 Storm Water Drainage System 4 ConstructionRenovation of Public Toilets 5 Supply of Tertiary Treated Water 6 Improvement of Roadsbridgesunderpassesparking areas 7 Civic works 8 Electrification 9 Horticulture 10MOH 11Fire amp Emergency Services 12Special component plan for Schedule Caste 13Strengthening of IT Department 14Shortage of manpower
He further said that Beti Bachao Beti Padao Abhiyan would be our priority
He further said that the Baby kit to the mothers would be provided continuously He
further apprised the House that about 45 suggestions for budget had been received from
the public through face-book website amp hard copy and all the suggestions had already
been discussed in the meeting of FampCC The suitable amp valuable suggestions have
been incorporated in the present budget He read out the budget speech and placed the
budget before the House He further said that although the present meeting is a special
meeting for the budget only yet another important agenda also has been included in the
transaction regarding the election of five members of street vending committee If the
House permits the said agenda should also be considered
Sh Satinder Singh said that under Section 86 of the Municipal Act the
budget is to be passed in the first week of February so that the same can be sent to the
Administration in the end of February for approval He appreciated the efforts of worthy
Mayor for early discussion on the budget in the FampCC and House He thanked the
Commissioner amp team of the account branch for the realistic budget
Smt Harjinder Kaur congratulated the Mayor for inviting the online
suggestions from the public regarding the proposed budget and it was the historic step of
5
the Corporation She further said that she had gone through the budget and it has come
to her notice that it is very simple in nature and every component has been given focus
She further said that the Mayor involved himself practically in Swachha Bharat Abhiyan
She further said that the budget demand had been incorporated in the budget as the
provision of special component plan for scheduled castes had been done She further
requested for women friendly budget She insisted for the proper lighting in the dark
area especially where the educational institutions are situated She further insisted for
focus on villages community parking amp maintenance of roads water pipelines amp
sewerage etc in this budget She further suggested that horticulture wing of the
Corporation should be strengthened Lastly she emphasized for 100 utilization of
annual budget
Sh Babu Lal said that the preparation of budget is a difficult task He
appreciated the factorsprovisions made in the budget He further said that we had been
preparing the realistic budget from the beginning but approximately 60 budget was
used to be utilized He further said that the budget under the non-plan head could not be
increased or decreased abnormally it varies around 10 from the budget of previous
year He further said that the plan budget should be realistic which can be exhausted
within the financial year He insisted for the budget provision of atleast 4 marriage
palaces in the city to facilitate the public of Chandigarh and save the excise and other
taxes going to other states also He further suggested that the beautiful flower plants
should be planted on the road sides for the greenery and beautification of the city
The Secretary apprised the House that a foreign delegation consisting of
28 members from 16 countries is also present in the House who had come to attend a
course sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs The course is on planning amp
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management of Urban Development Services He extended the welcome to the
delegation on behalf of the House
Sh Satish Kainth welcomed the delegation He further appreciated the
efforts of Mayor amp officers for preparing the realistic budget for the year 2016-17 He
further told the House that the population of the SC is 171 of the total population of the
city He further said that in all the Corporation of the country a special head is created for the
welfare of this community ie special component plan head for SC He further said that he had
demanded 2014-2015 year also for the creation of special component plan head for SC but no
action was taken at that time He thanked the Mayor for the provision of special component
plan for SC in the budget after obtaining the NOC from the Social Welfare Department
UT Chandigarh He further suggested that the information regarding expenditure under
non-plan head should also be brought in the concerned committees He further said that
in the action taken report at the time of former CMC it was decided that the area
councillor amp concerned committee would be apprised with the expenditure incurred under
non-plan head but no action had been taken so far He appreciated the suggestion of
worthy CMC regarding the installation of sensor based lights in the city
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) congratulated the Mayor Commissioner amp
Officers for the preparation of budget in time and for the invitation of suggestions from the
public He further highlighted the receipts of the Corporation which were not according
to the target He further said that the properties of the Corporation had been lying vacant
since long time these approximately 300 sites had not been leased out or rented out
He further said that the rent from the Verka amp Vita Milk booths was not being recovered
regularly He further said that the house tax was imposed in the year 2013 but it had
not been implemented meticulously He further said that we should ascertain the
defaulters and the house tax should be recovered from them He suggested for
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hundred percent recovery of the house tax or other tax and rent He further said that
commercial tax was imposed on the basis of survey of commercial properties He further
said that commercial properties had increased but no property tax was being levied on
them He further apprised that 50 parking lots had been laying un-auctioned which
was a great loss to the Corporation He insisted for the recovery of the arrear of water
bills He highlighted the dues against the Government Department of Haryana Punjab amp
UT He suggested for the replacement of faulty water meters He further said that a
policy had been framed for keeping the 12 ft vacant space in the neighbourhood parks
but some neighbourhood parks had been left out He insisted that the policy should be
implemented meticulously He further said that 2 under passes had been approved and
suggested for another under pass on the round abouts of Sector-21 22 34 amp 35 He
demanded that the proper utilization of cycle tracks so that the funds incurred on the
cycle tracks could be utilized He suggested that all the slow moving vehicles should use
the cycle tracks This practice would avoid the accidents He further suggested that the
slip roads should be constructed from the suitable distance of roundabouts He
demanded that the survey of all the slip roads should be got done and the wrongs if any
had been done should be rectified He suggested for the good material for jogging
tracks He further said that the provision for construction of cattle pound had been made
in the budget therefore the number of cattle catchers amp vehicles should be increased
He further said that all the public toilets in Sector-35 were non-functional He further said
that the grease trap had been constructed by the hoteliers on the Govt land which were
demolished by the MC He further said that the grease traps should be constructed on
the land of hotels The pipes of sewerage and flood water are mixed and due to that the
foul smell has been emanating He insisted that the public health wing of the MC
should be strengthened to remove the bottlenecks in its system He further said that
there was no co-ordination between the officers of public health wing and regular
8
SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
4
1 Augmentation of city water supply scheme Kajauli 2 Strengthening of Sewerage System 3 Storm Water Drainage System 4 ConstructionRenovation of Public Toilets 5 Supply of Tertiary Treated Water 6 Improvement of Roadsbridgesunderpassesparking areas 7 Civic works 8 Electrification 9 Horticulture 10MOH 11Fire amp Emergency Services 12Special component plan for Schedule Caste 13Strengthening of IT Department 14Shortage of manpower
He further said that Beti Bachao Beti Padao Abhiyan would be our priority
He further said that the Baby kit to the mothers would be provided continuously He
further apprised the House that about 45 suggestions for budget had been received from
the public through face-book website amp hard copy and all the suggestions had already
been discussed in the meeting of FampCC The suitable amp valuable suggestions have
been incorporated in the present budget He read out the budget speech and placed the
budget before the House He further said that although the present meeting is a special
meeting for the budget only yet another important agenda also has been included in the
transaction regarding the election of five members of street vending committee If the
House permits the said agenda should also be considered
Sh Satinder Singh said that under Section 86 of the Municipal Act the
budget is to be passed in the first week of February so that the same can be sent to the
Administration in the end of February for approval He appreciated the efforts of worthy
Mayor for early discussion on the budget in the FampCC and House He thanked the
Commissioner amp team of the account branch for the realistic budget
Smt Harjinder Kaur congratulated the Mayor for inviting the online
suggestions from the public regarding the proposed budget and it was the historic step of
5
the Corporation She further said that she had gone through the budget and it has come
to her notice that it is very simple in nature and every component has been given focus
She further said that the Mayor involved himself practically in Swachha Bharat Abhiyan
She further said that the budget demand had been incorporated in the budget as the
provision of special component plan for scheduled castes had been done She further
requested for women friendly budget She insisted for the proper lighting in the dark
area especially where the educational institutions are situated She further insisted for
focus on villages community parking amp maintenance of roads water pipelines amp
sewerage etc in this budget She further suggested that horticulture wing of the
Corporation should be strengthened Lastly she emphasized for 100 utilization of
annual budget
Sh Babu Lal said that the preparation of budget is a difficult task He
appreciated the factorsprovisions made in the budget He further said that we had been
preparing the realistic budget from the beginning but approximately 60 budget was
used to be utilized He further said that the budget under the non-plan head could not be
increased or decreased abnormally it varies around 10 from the budget of previous
year He further said that the plan budget should be realistic which can be exhausted
within the financial year He insisted for the budget provision of atleast 4 marriage
palaces in the city to facilitate the public of Chandigarh and save the excise and other
taxes going to other states also He further suggested that the beautiful flower plants
should be planted on the road sides for the greenery and beautification of the city
The Secretary apprised the House that a foreign delegation consisting of
28 members from 16 countries is also present in the House who had come to attend a
course sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs The course is on planning amp
6
management of Urban Development Services He extended the welcome to the
delegation on behalf of the House
Sh Satish Kainth welcomed the delegation He further appreciated the
efforts of Mayor amp officers for preparing the realistic budget for the year 2016-17 He
further told the House that the population of the SC is 171 of the total population of the
city He further said that in all the Corporation of the country a special head is created for the
welfare of this community ie special component plan head for SC He further said that he had
demanded 2014-2015 year also for the creation of special component plan head for SC but no
action was taken at that time He thanked the Mayor for the provision of special component
plan for SC in the budget after obtaining the NOC from the Social Welfare Department
UT Chandigarh He further suggested that the information regarding expenditure under
non-plan head should also be brought in the concerned committees He further said that
in the action taken report at the time of former CMC it was decided that the area
councillor amp concerned committee would be apprised with the expenditure incurred under
non-plan head but no action had been taken so far He appreciated the suggestion of
worthy CMC regarding the installation of sensor based lights in the city
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) congratulated the Mayor Commissioner amp
Officers for the preparation of budget in time and for the invitation of suggestions from the
public He further highlighted the receipts of the Corporation which were not according
to the target He further said that the properties of the Corporation had been lying vacant
since long time these approximately 300 sites had not been leased out or rented out
He further said that the rent from the Verka amp Vita Milk booths was not being recovered
regularly He further said that the house tax was imposed in the year 2013 but it had
not been implemented meticulously He further said that we should ascertain the
defaulters and the house tax should be recovered from them He suggested for
7
hundred percent recovery of the house tax or other tax and rent He further said that
commercial tax was imposed on the basis of survey of commercial properties He further
said that commercial properties had increased but no property tax was being levied on
them He further apprised that 50 parking lots had been laying un-auctioned which
was a great loss to the Corporation He insisted for the recovery of the arrear of water
bills He highlighted the dues against the Government Department of Haryana Punjab amp
UT He suggested for the replacement of faulty water meters He further said that a
policy had been framed for keeping the 12 ft vacant space in the neighbourhood parks
but some neighbourhood parks had been left out He insisted that the policy should be
implemented meticulously He further said that 2 under passes had been approved and
suggested for another under pass on the round abouts of Sector-21 22 34 amp 35 He
demanded that the proper utilization of cycle tracks so that the funds incurred on the
cycle tracks could be utilized He suggested that all the slow moving vehicles should use
the cycle tracks This practice would avoid the accidents He further suggested that the
slip roads should be constructed from the suitable distance of roundabouts He
demanded that the survey of all the slip roads should be got done and the wrongs if any
had been done should be rectified He suggested for the good material for jogging
tracks He further said that the provision for construction of cattle pound had been made
in the budget therefore the number of cattle catchers amp vehicles should be increased
He further said that all the public toilets in Sector-35 were non-functional He further said
that the grease trap had been constructed by the hoteliers on the Govt land which were
demolished by the MC He further said that the grease traps should be constructed on
the land of hotels The pipes of sewerage and flood water are mixed and due to that the
foul smell has been emanating He insisted that the public health wing of the MC
should be strengthened to remove the bottlenecks in its system He further said that
there was no co-ordination between the officers of public health wing and regular
8
SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
5
the Corporation She further said that she had gone through the budget and it has come
to her notice that it is very simple in nature and every component has been given focus
She further said that the Mayor involved himself practically in Swachha Bharat Abhiyan
She further said that the budget demand had been incorporated in the budget as the
provision of special component plan for scheduled castes had been done She further
requested for women friendly budget She insisted for the proper lighting in the dark
area especially where the educational institutions are situated She further insisted for
focus on villages community parking amp maintenance of roads water pipelines amp
sewerage etc in this budget She further suggested that horticulture wing of the
Corporation should be strengthened Lastly she emphasized for 100 utilization of
annual budget
Sh Babu Lal said that the preparation of budget is a difficult task He
appreciated the factorsprovisions made in the budget He further said that we had been
preparing the realistic budget from the beginning but approximately 60 budget was
used to be utilized He further said that the budget under the non-plan head could not be
increased or decreased abnormally it varies around 10 from the budget of previous
year He further said that the plan budget should be realistic which can be exhausted
within the financial year He insisted for the budget provision of atleast 4 marriage
palaces in the city to facilitate the public of Chandigarh and save the excise and other
taxes going to other states also He further suggested that the beautiful flower plants
should be planted on the road sides for the greenery and beautification of the city
The Secretary apprised the House that a foreign delegation consisting of
28 members from 16 countries is also present in the House who had come to attend a
course sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs The course is on planning amp
6
management of Urban Development Services He extended the welcome to the
delegation on behalf of the House
Sh Satish Kainth welcomed the delegation He further appreciated the
efforts of Mayor amp officers for preparing the realistic budget for the year 2016-17 He
further told the House that the population of the SC is 171 of the total population of the
city He further said that in all the Corporation of the country a special head is created for the
welfare of this community ie special component plan head for SC He further said that he had
demanded 2014-2015 year also for the creation of special component plan head for SC but no
action was taken at that time He thanked the Mayor for the provision of special component
plan for SC in the budget after obtaining the NOC from the Social Welfare Department
UT Chandigarh He further suggested that the information regarding expenditure under
non-plan head should also be brought in the concerned committees He further said that
in the action taken report at the time of former CMC it was decided that the area
councillor amp concerned committee would be apprised with the expenditure incurred under
non-plan head but no action had been taken so far He appreciated the suggestion of
worthy CMC regarding the installation of sensor based lights in the city
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) congratulated the Mayor Commissioner amp
Officers for the preparation of budget in time and for the invitation of suggestions from the
public He further highlighted the receipts of the Corporation which were not according
to the target He further said that the properties of the Corporation had been lying vacant
since long time these approximately 300 sites had not been leased out or rented out
He further said that the rent from the Verka amp Vita Milk booths was not being recovered
regularly He further said that the house tax was imposed in the year 2013 but it had
not been implemented meticulously He further said that we should ascertain the
defaulters and the house tax should be recovered from them He suggested for
7
hundred percent recovery of the house tax or other tax and rent He further said that
commercial tax was imposed on the basis of survey of commercial properties He further
said that commercial properties had increased but no property tax was being levied on
them He further apprised that 50 parking lots had been laying un-auctioned which
was a great loss to the Corporation He insisted for the recovery of the arrear of water
bills He highlighted the dues against the Government Department of Haryana Punjab amp
UT He suggested for the replacement of faulty water meters He further said that a
policy had been framed for keeping the 12 ft vacant space in the neighbourhood parks
but some neighbourhood parks had been left out He insisted that the policy should be
implemented meticulously He further said that 2 under passes had been approved and
suggested for another under pass on the round abouts of Sector-21 22 34 amp 35 He
demanded that the proper utilization of cycle tracks so that the funds incurred on the
cycle tracks could be utilized He suggested that all the slow moving vehicles should use
the cycle tracks This practice would avoid the accidents He further suggested that the
slip roads should be constructed from the suitable distance of roundabouts He
demanded that the survey of all the slip roads should be got done and the wrongs if any
had been done should be rectified He suggested for the good material for jogging
tracks He further said that the provision for construction of cattle pound had been made
in the budget therefore the number of cattle catchers amp vehicles should be increased
He further said that all the public toilets in Sector-35 were non-functional He further said
that the grease trap had been constructed by the hoteliers on the Govt land which were
demolished by the MC He further said that the grease traps should be constructed on
the land of hotels The pipes of sewerage and flood water are mixed and due to that the
foul smell has been emanating He insisted that the public health wing of the MC
should be strengthened to remove the bottlenecks in its system He further said that
there was no co-ordination between the officers of public health wing and regular
8
SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
6
management of Urban Development Services He extended the welcome to the
delegation on behalf of the House
Sh Satish Kainth welcomed the delegation He further appreciated the
efforts of Mayor amp officers for preparing the realistic budget for the year 2016-17 He
further told the House that the population of the SC is 171 of the total population of the
city He further said that in all the Corporation of the country a special head is created for the
welfare of this community ie special component plan head for SC He further said that he had
demanded 2014-2015 year also for the creation of special component plan head for SC but no
action was taken at that time He thanked the Mayor for the provision of special component
plan for SC in the budget after obtaining the NOC from the Social Welfare Department
UT Chandigarh He further suggested that the information regarding expenditure under
non-plan head should also be brought in the concerned committees He further said that
in the action taken report at the time of former CMC it was decided that the area
councillor amp concerned committee would be apprised with the expenditure incurred under
non-plan head but no action had been taken so far He appreciated the suggestion of
worthy CMC regarding the installation of sensor based lights in the city
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) congratulated the Mayor Commissioner amp
Officers for the preparation of budget in time and for the invitation of suggestions from the
public He further highlighted the receipts of the Corporation which were not according
to the target He further said that the properties of the Corporation had been lying vacant
since long time these approximately 300 sites had not been leased out or rented out
He further said that the rent from the Verka amp Vita Milk booths was not being recovered
regularly He further said that the house tax was imposed in the year 2013 but it had
not been implemented meticulously He further said that we should ascertain the
defaulters and the house tax should be recovered from them He suggested for
7
hundred percent recovery of the house tax or other tax and rent He further said that
commercial tax was imposed on the basis of survey of commercial properties He further
said that commercial properties had increased but no property tax was being levied on
them He further apprised that 50 parking lots had been laying un-auctioned which
was a great loss to the Corporation He insisted for the recovery of the arrear of water
bills He highlighted the dues against the Government Department of Haryana Punjab amp
UT He suggested for the replacement of faulty water meters He further said that a
policy had been framed for keeping the 12 ft vacant space in the neighbourhood parks
but some neighbourhood parks had been left out He insisted that the policy should be
implemented meticulously He further said that 2 under passes had been approved and
suggested for another under pass on the round abouts of Sector-21 22 34 amp 35 He
demanded that the proper utilization of cycle tracks so that the funds incurred on the
cycle tracks could be utilized He suggested that all the slow moving vehicles should use
the cycle tracks This practice would avoid the accidents He further suggested that the
slip roads should be constructed from the suitable distance of roundabouts He
demanded that the survey of all the slip roads should be got done and the wrongs if any
had been done should be rectified He suggested for the good material for jogging
tracks He further said that the provision for construction of cattle pound had been made
in the budget therefore the number of cattle catchers amp vehicles should be increased
He further said that all the public toilets in Sector-35 were non-functional He further said
that the grease trap had been constructed by the hoteliers on the Govt land which were
demolished by the MC He further said that the grease traps should be constructed on
the land of hotels The pipes of sewerage and flood water are mixed and due to that the
foul smell has been emanating He insisted that the public health wing of the MC
should be strengthened to remove the bottlenecks in its system He further said that
there was no co-ordination between the officers of public health wing and regular
8
SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
7
hundred percent recovery of the house tax or other tax and rent He further said that
commercial tax was imposed on the basis of survey of commercial properties He further
said that commercial properties had increased but no property tax was being levied on
them He further apprised that 50 parking lots had been laying un-auctioned which
was a great loss to the Corporation He insisted for the recovery of the arrear of water
bills He highlighted the dues against the Government Department of Haryana Punjab amp
UT He suggested for the replacement of faulty water meters He further said that a
policy had been framed for keeping the 12 ft vacant space in the neighbourhood parks
but some neighbourhood parks had been left out He insisted that the policy should be
implemented meticulously He further said that 2 under passes had been approved and
suggested for another under pass on the round abouts of Sector-21 22 34 amp 35 He
demanded that the proper utilization of cycle tracks so that the funds incurred on the
cycle tracks could be utilized He suggested that all the slow moving vehicles should use
the cycle tracks This practice would avoid the accidents He further suggested that the
slip roads should be constructed from the suitable distance of roundabouts He
demanded that the survey of all the slip roads should be got done and the wrongs if any
had been done should be rectified He suggested for the good material for jogging
tracks He further said that the provision for construction of cattle pound had been made
in the budget therefore the number of cattle catchers amp vehicles should be increased
He further said that all the public toilets in Sector-35 were non-functional He further said
that the grease trap had been constructed by the hoteliers on the Govt land which were
demolished by the MC He further said that the grease traps should be constructed on
the land of hotels The pipes of sewerage and flood water are mixed and due to that the
foul smell has been emanating He insisted that the public health wing of the MC
should be strengthened to remove the bottlenecks in its system He further said that
there was no co-ordination between the officers of public health wing and regular
8
SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
8
SE(PH) should be appointed He suggested that the decisions of the departmental
committees should be implemented within time frame
Sh Davesh Moudgil took the Chair of the Mayor
Sh Subhash Chawla congratulated the Mayor saying that the present
Budget is the copy of the previous Budgets which was prepared by the Mayors of
Congress Party He further said that nothing extra has been inserted in the present
Budget for comments He welcomed the provision of Special Component Plan for
Schedule Caste He further said that the proposed Budget is amounting to Rs107200
Crore and the receipt of the Corporation has been shown Rs15000 Crore The receipt
of Rs1000 Crore has been anticipated by the sale of property otherwise the receipt
would be Rs14000 Crore He further said that an amount of Rs87200 Crore should be
available for the implementation of this Budget He further said that the presence of
Honrsquoble MP in the Budget meeting would have been better He further said that the
MP had an important role for bringing the funds for the Corporation He asked the
Mayor how much amount was provided last year by the Administration under Plan Head
He further apprised the House an amount of Rs30000 Crore was sought by the
Corporation whereas Rs14600 crore was provided He further said that always the
funds were made available as per commitment by the Administration but last year an
amount of Rs10200 crore was given against the commitment of Rs14600 crore He
apprehended that the funds amounting to Rs54700 crore would not be released by the
Administration against Rs10200 crore under plan head He further apprised the House
that non-plan budget is also committed budget but last year cut of Rs5000 crore was
done in the non-plan budget He further apprised the House that the FD of Municipal
Corporation had reduced from Rs50000 crore to Rs17900 crore He expressed his
sorrow as the Chandigarh was not selected among twenty smart city The reasons for
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
9
lacking have not been brought in the notice of the public The lacking should have been
brought in the House due to which the Chandigarh could not be included in the list of
smart cities so that more funds could be available for the smart city accordingly He
apprised the House with the conditions of the smart cities He further said that the
provisions had not been done in the present budget according to the functions of the
Corporation for smart city He further said that the open defecation was common in the
colonies and slum areas in Chandigarh He opposed the entry tax on the commercial
vehicles in Chandigarh
Smt Harjinder Kaur said that Sh Subhash Chawla should not have to
leave the meeting of the FampCC in which the budget was being discussed He should
have to contribute his valuable commentssuggestions
There was a din in the House on this issue
Sh Subhash Chawla reiterated all the comments when Sh Arun Sood took
the Chair of Mayor He further apprised the House that the real budget would be passed
by the Parliament on 2922016 He further said that according to the recommendations
of Delhi Finance Commission 30 share becomes due from revenue for this year of the
total income of the Administration He further apprised the House that total income of
the Administration for this year is Rs250000 Crore and our share becomes due at the
tune of Rs66700 Crore He said that the present budget was non-realistic budget He
further said that the Budget provision should have been made for two Multi Level Parking
and opening of new primary schools
Sh Pardeep Chhabra said that the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was nowhere
in villages amp colonies
The House was adjourned for tea break at 100 pm and resumed at 150 pm
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
10
Sh Subhah Chawla said that everybody expects a new thing from the new
Mayor He further said that we should amend the budget so as to make it practical We
should frame a limited budget in view of our limited sources He further said that neither
the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan nor the smart city concept had been reflecting in the
present budget He further said that our progressbudget depend upon the grant in aid
from the Administration He emphasized that the Corporation should try its best to get
the maximum grant and do share from the Administration He further invited the
attention of the House towards page No1 that GIA for 2016 are subject to the actual
sanction by Chandigarh Administration if GIA will not be released as per demand the
expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly In view of the above
condition the House is bound to accept the grant in aid which would be provided by the
Administration He suggested that the Mayor along with the Commissioner should visit
the colonies and slum areas then they would come to know the ground reality He
further apprised the House that the water pipelines were being punctured for defecation
and a documentary in this regard had been made by a foreigner He further apprised the
House that open defecation was common in Sector-25 around the cremation ground He
further said that nothing had been mentioned in the budget regarding the shifting of
dumping ground He further apprehended that there would be the loss of Rs50000
crore between the grant in aid and the receipt of the Corporation He further told that
the property of the Municipal Corporation in the villages was being encroached The
record of the Manimajra and other villages could not be maintained so far He further
said that the value of the property in villages is not less than the property in urban He
further said that the recovery of water dues approximately Rs6000 crore is pending He
suggested that we should try to recover the revenue from the dues of water and the
property of villages should be identified instead of levying the taxes on the public He
further said that the water supply by 24x7 does not reflect in the budget He suggested
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
11
that the incomplete projects should be completed by the present Mayor He suggested
for the long term planning He assured for the full co-operation from his party members
The Mayor apprised the House that budget provision amounting to Rs300
crore had been made for Swachha Bharat Abhiyan He further said that the toilets
blocks would be constructed throughout the city and an agenda for 29 toilet blocks had
been passed in the last meeting of the House He further said that the agenda for
machinery and manpower had been passed in the recent meeting He further said that
he had sought the requirement of toilet blocks from all the Councillors but reply had not
been received so far from the members of Congress He further said that he had been
exercising on the budget since 8th January He further said that he visited the sulabh
sauchalyas and directed the workers to upkeep all the sauchalyas within one month He
further said that the recommendations of 4th Finance Commission Delhi are not
mandatory these are advisory He further said that the in the first meeting of the Co-
ordination Committee it was principally agreed by the Administration that an amount of
Rs25000 crore for Kajauli water works would be borne by the Administration He
further said that the Administration had agreed principally for 30 grant of the 4th finance
commission He further said that budget was discussed in detail and head wise in the
meeting of FampCC He further told that at the time of visit of the Prime Minister the
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan was done in the villages amp colonies He further apprised the
House on which dates they organized the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan in villages amp
colonies
Sh Darshan Garg objected that nothing was done under Swachha Bharat
Abhiyan in Sector-56 Chandigarh He asked on which date the abhiyan was started
Dr Amrit Tiwari said that she and the Mayor worked on the project of
Health delivery on doorstep of a common man it was one of its kind project which was
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
12
never done in the city of the country She further said that unfortunately that project
does not reflect in the budget it needs to be added in the budget
Sh Darshan Garg said that his colleague who always opposed the study
tour has agreed with the budget provision of Rs5000 lac for study tour He asked
whether the study tours would be performed He further said that the budget provision
of Rs1700 crore had been done for the development of villages which is very less He
further asked whether the budget provision has been done for water amp electricity
connections in the houses constructed out of the lal dora Whether any budget
provision has been done for the construction of community centres in the villages
The Mayor told that the Commissioner is empowered to shift the amount
from one head to another head as per requirement if there would be need of more
funds that would be allocated from other head
Sh Satinder Singh suggested that budget provision of an amount of
Rs1000 lac should be done instead of Rs5000 lac for study tour
The House adjourned for lunch break at 230 pm and resumed at 320 pm
Sh Surinder Bahga said that he had studied and compared the budget
provisions of last four years He explained the year-wise expenditure of the budget ie
2012-13 = 56 2013-14 = 87 due to cut of Rs20000 crore 2014-15 = 65
2015-16 = 60 He further said that in view of the above mentioned figures 30 to
40 figures are proxy in the budget He suggested that 30 cut should be done in the
present budget to make it realistic He further suggested that the Corporation should
focus on recovery of water dues renting out the vacant property amp parking lots He
further suggested to stop the extravagant inserted in the estimates of engineering wing
He gave the example of connected bridges in the markets which remained barricaded
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
13
about one year and lateron removed He emphasized the strengthening of
Commissioner office opening of extra division of BampR and Horticulture wing He further
suggested for establishing the planning unit in the MC He further criticized the drawings
of the engineering wing of the Corporation He gave the example of a wire which was
sanctioned 250 mt as per estimate but in fact it was used in 2800 mt in Japanese
Garden He said that estimation amp drawings are not correct He suggested for the
outsourcing of machinery instead of purchase of heavy machinery He said that the
budget provision for the new pipelines of TT water had been done but the old pipelines
were not functional He insisted that the old system should be made functional He
further said that the toilets in the markets amp green belts were not functional these should
be made functional rather than the construction of new toilet blocks He suggested for
less purchase of sucking machines as experiment instead of 100 at once He further told
that the sewerage project of Maloya is technically wrong which has been inserted at
page No44 of the budget He insisted that the said project should be reviewed
The Chief Engineer justified the sewerage project of Maloya
Sh Davesh Moudgil said that all the suggestions received from the
Councillors should be incorporated in the present budget He further said that the public
participation in the budget is bench mark He further said that the civic amenities are
provided by the Corporation therefore the public participation is a very important factor
in realistic budget He appreciated the budget provision of parking between the marla
houses amp neighbourhood parks it would be a great relief to the residents of southern
sectors He suggested that it should be implemented rationally in the whole city He
further said that the construction of SSKs is very important under swachha bharat
abhiyan He further said that the estimates of two hospitals were passed for Maloya amp
Sector-48 whether any budget provision had been made in the present budget or not It
should be ensured that the hospitals would be constructed either by the Administration or
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
14
Corporation He further said that an agenda was passed for the purchase of medicines
amounting to Rs 100 crore and the Administration had agreed to give its ascent to
purchase the medicine by the Corporation upto some extent He further said that it
should be expedited He further said that the amendment required in the bye-laws of the
community centres for their maintenance amp separate staff should be provided in the
community centres for maintenance work He said that the provision should be made to
incur the ward development fund and policy should be framed in this regard He further
said that the Administration should permit to the Corporation to recruit the required staff
He demanded for the underpass from the Tribune Chowk to Hallomajra as there is a
huge rush of traffic from Industrial Area Phase-I to Industrial Area Phase-II It should be
incorporated in the budget provision He suggested that the junction box either should
be inbuilt or installed at the height of 10ft on the pole to avoid the theft
The Chief Engineer told that these two hospitals would be constructed by
the Administration as 100 bedded hospital does not come within the preview of primary
health
Major DS Sandhu (Retd) said that the community centre of Sector-35 had
become the centre of the gambling the gamblers are not permanent members of the
community centre and they are residents of the surrounding areas He further said that
according to the bye-laws the membership of the outsiders was terminated In this way
all the members went to the respective areas only the residents of Mohali amp Panchkula
obtained the stay from the Honrsquoble High Court According to the latest guidelines the
residents of the respective sector would be the member of the community centre of said
sector He highlighted that the residents of Sector-35 had boycotted the community
centre of Sector-35
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
15
The Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen to express her views regarding
the budget The Councillors of the Congress party insisted that they should be given a
chance to speak first but the Mayor allowed Dr Shagufta Parveen and the members of
Congress Party left the House under protest
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that late Sh Malkiat Singh ex-Councillor died
when he was on study tour She suggested that a welfare fund should be created for the
welfare of the Councillors so that his family could be helped in such incidents She
further suggested that the budget provision should be made for group insurance policy
for the Councillors
The Commissioner said that a token provision of Rs5000 lac for the
welfare is being made in the budget However the detailed policy would be framed
lateron
Sh Asha Jaswal said that the Budget provisions were made excessive as
whole of the Budget could not be incurred last year She suggested that the Budget
provisions should be made in view of the election of the House this year due to that the
Code of Conduct would come into force 2 or 3 months prior to the end of tenure of the
House She further said that budget provision of Rs8000 crore was made last year for
the construction of roads bridges cycle track and slip roads but Rs4700 crore were
incurred and this year also an amount of Rs6000 crore had been kept for this purpose
She asked whether the Corporation would be able to incur whole of the amount during
the financial year She further said that the number of stray dogs had been increasing
day per day in spite of the sterilization of dogs
The MOH apprised the House that 4800 stray dogs had been sterilized and
the sterilization of dogs was being continued
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
16
The Joint Commissioner-I apprised the House that the agency which was
sterilizing the dogs in Chandigarh had refused to do the job further and had shifted
somewhere else but on our request the said agency would sterilize the stray dogs
further for one year and agenda in this regard would be brought in the next meeting of
the House
The Mayor appreciated the programme of sterilization of stray dogs and
apprised the House that the result of sterilization would reflect in near future
Smt Heera Negi said that many deaths had occurred due to the accident
with stray animals and no compensation had been given to the family of the deceased
She further said that Sh Harpreet Singh had died in Sector 45 due to the accident with a
stray cow and nothing was paid by the Corporation to the family of the deceased
However a patty amount was paid to the family of victim by the Councillor from their own
pockets She suggested that a budget provision should be made for the compensation
to the victim in such accidents She further said that there should be check on the pet
dogs as defecation is done on the road sides or in front of the House of neighbours by
the pet dogs She suggested for the penalty on the owner of pet dog in such cases
Sh Sat Parkash Aggarwal thanked the Mayor as he met the Deputy
Commissioner UT Chandigarh alongwith the Vyapar mandal and the drive was got
stopped against the Vyapar mandal He appreciated the realistic budget He further
said that the ward No6 had been included in the swachha bharat abhiyan in which the
villages and colonies falls He further said that there was need of special drive for the
development of villages and colonies He further appreciated the budget provision of
special component plan for SC He apprised the House that scheduled caste community
is the 17 of the total population of Chandigarh therefore the provision of special
component plan for SC would be fruitful for the betterment of this community He
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
17
thanked the Mayor on behalf of the vayopar mandal as special attention had been given
for providing the civic amenities in the markets He said that the policies would be made
in future also for the betterment of businessmen of Chandigarh
Sh Satish Kainth invited the attention of the House towards page No27 of
the budget he said that the budget provision for the recarpetting of IndlArea Block-D
had not been made for which the estimate had already been passed by the House He
further invited the attention of the House towards page No51 of the budget regarding the
meat hygiene he told that a committee consisting of Councillors amp Supdt Slaughter
House was constituted for Automatic Bird Processing Plant According to the report of
the said committee automatic meat processing plant was to be installed in Chandigarh
and an agendaestimate of Rs 4800 lac was also passed but the work had not been
started on this project so far He insisted that the illegal slaughtering in Chandigarh
should be banned
Sh Saurabh Joshi said that when they went on study tour and bring the
concept of air conditioned fish market Sector-41 Chandigarh He told that said market
had been laying abandoned and condition of said market is deteriorating day per day
He further said that a committee was constituted to rent out this market and efforts were
made to rent out the booths of this market but in vein because the bid value of the
booths was very high He further invited the attention of the House towards the selling of
fish amp other kind of meat on road sides and surroundings of Chandigarh He further said
that till the selling of fish amp meat from unauthorized places would not be stopped the
concept of modern amp air conditioned fish market would not be successful
Sh MP Kohli appreciated the efforts done by the Mayor for the welfare of
the vyapar mandal and criticized the members of Congress Party for their misbehaviour
and walk out from the House He demanded for the electrified signboards on the road
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
18
sides He further said that the property of the Corporation should be identified in the
villages and colonies which had been encroached by the public He reiterated the
demanded of four marriage palaces in the city it will generate the employment for the
residents amp revenue to the Corporation He demanded for the construction of toilet block
in the Grain Market Sector-26 Chandigarh He suggested for the early decision to rent
out or the sale of property which had been laying abandoned
Smt Shagufta Parveen said that the nominated councillors had been
working under the influence of Congress Party since last four years beside the majority
of the candidates of BJP they could not elect the Mayor of BJP She criticized the
working of the members of Congress Party
Sh Hardeep Singh said that the budget provision of Rs 900 crore was
kept for the development of villages last year and Rs 700 crore this year He further
said that although the budget provision is made but the amount is not incurred as per
provisions He further said that the budget should be incurred at every cost He
suggested that atleast one village should be modernized per year
Sh Saurabh Joshi appreciated the efforts of CAO and his team for the
preparation of realistic budget Moreover the budget was prepared in time as per
provisions of the Act He suggested for the play ground in all the sectors He further
said that beside the play grounds of schools amp neighbourhood parks there should a multi
sports complex also He suggested that the swimming pool can be started in the
community centres He further said that 2024 posts of various categories had been lying
vacant in the Corporation and suggested that the same should be filled up at the earliest
He further said that the post of Tehsildar amp Naib Tehisldar amp Kanungo should also be
incorporated in the budget He further said that the agenda of the next meeting of the
House would be paperless He demanded for providing pen drive to the Councillors
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
19
The Mayor suggested that the neighbourhood parks should be used as
play ground after erecting a hedge of 20ft height
ldquoThe House unanimously approved the Revised Estimates2015-16 amp Budget Estimate for the year 2016-17 as under-
BRIEF POSITION OF REVISED ESTIMATES 2015-16 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES 2016-17 (In lacs)
SNo Head of Accounts Aniticipated balance of 3132014
Balance at bank as on 3132015
Likely Balance on 3132016
A 2878104 3894406 1731875 SNo Head of Accounts Approved
Budget Estimates 2015-16
Revised Estimates 2015-16
Budget Estimates 2016-17
B RECEIPTS I) TOTAL GRANT IN
AID i) PLAN 3254500 1024500 5497000
ii) NON PLAN 3193200 2345600 3421700
II) OWN RECEIPTS 1513300 1553650 1584100
TOTAL B 7961000 4923750 10502800
C TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE (A+B)
10839104 8818156 12234675
D EXPENDITURE III) PLAN 3481500 2809450 5724000
IV) NON PLAN 4706500 4276831 5005800
E TOTAL EXPENDITURE (III TO IV)
8188000 7086281 10729800
Note - GIA for 2015-16 and the balance thereof are subject to actual receipts
GIA for 2016-17 are subject to actual sanction by Chandigarh Administration If GIA will not be released as per demand the expenditure on budget object will not be incurred accordingly
20
AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
21
festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
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AGENDA ITEM NO2
Election of Town Vending Committee for implementation of the streetvendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Rules 2015 under the Act 2014
The Secretary placed agenda item No2 for consideration
The Joint Commissioner-II apprised the House that according to the Street
Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules 2015 under
the Act 2014 the election of the Town Vending Committee is to be held There would
be 12 members of the Committee out of which 5 members are to be elected among the
street vendors He further apprised the House that there are 3 lists of the vendors ie
465 licence holders 196 vendors who have renewed their licences and 7267 street
vendors whose name appears in the survey Now the House is to decide out of which
list the 05 members are to be elected
ldquoThe House considered amp unanimously resolved that 05 (five) members be elected among 196 vendors who haverenewed their licences
Further it was also decided that the date of filing of nominations be 1732016 amp 1832016 ie Thursday amp Friday from 900 am to 300 pm and venue of the election will be Polling Booth at Community Centre Sector-22 Chandigarh
Further the House approved the date of scrutiny and list of valid nominations on 2132016 and withdrawal of nomination on 2232016 and election of five members be held on dated 2832016 from 800 am to 400 pmrdquo
The Mayor said that when they went to Bombay for attending the Smart
City Council of India to receive the Smart City Award they interacted with the
representatives 18 reputed companies for the different projects of the Corporation and
invited them for the study of said projects He further said that the Corporation is going
to celebrate the Rose Festival from 19022016 to 21022016 The Councillors would be
observers and Judges in the Rose Festival He further said that the schedule of the
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festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh
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festival would be sent to all the Councillors He requested all the Councillors to attend
the Rose Festival according to the schedule He further said that the outgoing Mayor
present Mayor and outgoing Commissioners and present Commissioner would be
honoured in the Rose Festival He further said that the Councillors also would be
awarded as a token of respect in the festival He further said that MP had invited the
application from all the Councillors to provide the funds from MP LAD Fund He
requested all the Councillors to submit their demands at the earliest for the work from
MP LAD Fund
The Commissioner thanked the team of the Chief Account Officer and the
Mayor as they prepared the Budget with their full dedication within time He further said
that the efforts would be made to utilize the maximum Budget within the financial year
He also thanked members of FampCC and the Councillors as whole of the Budget was
discussed head-wise in detail He expressed his hope that the team spirit would be
continued in future also
The Mayor said that the income of the Corporation should be increased by
means of leasing of property and increasing of number of milk booths or allowing
shooting in the parks He further said that proposal for entry tax on commercial vehicles
is being studied He further assured the House that the maximum budget would be
utilized during the financial year
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
Secretary Mayor Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Chandigarh Chandigarh