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The Coimbatore Consumer Cause has flagged the Coimbatore Corporation’s signifier of including the Flag Day Fund arsenic a mandatory constituent successful the request generated for gathering program approvals online.
In a practice to the Corporation and the Department of Municipal Administration, K. Kathirmathiyon, caput of the user body, said the Flag Day Fund, which is collected to enactment payment schemes for ex-servicemen, is meant to beryllium voluntary but is being bundled with statutory fees specified arsenic gathering licence and UGD charges, leaving applicants with nary enactment to exclude oregon diminution the Flag Day Fund component.
“Unless the full magnitude shown successful the request — including the Flag Day Fund — is paid successful full, the gathering program support cannot beryllium processed. As a result, the Flag Day Fund, which is meant to beryllium purely voluntary, is converted into a mandatory levy, which is some amerciable and unethical,” helium said.
The user assemblage noted that the signifier has accrued successful caller years, coinciding with the Corporation receiving awards from the State Government for precocious collections nether the Flag Day Fund. The CCC has repeatedly sent notices to the Coimbatore Corporation, but the signifier continues.
It has demanded refund of each specified magnitude collected from February 1, 2025, informing that it volition attack the tribunal if corrective enactment is not taken.
