5 months ago
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The Kotagiri Citizens Welfare Association has written to the Nilgiris District Collector demanding that vacant posts successful the Kotagiri Grade III Municipality beryllium filled soon.
The relation has said, successful a missive to the Collector, that since the upgradation, the lack of a full-time Commissioner successful Kotagiri is resulting successful administrative delays. Presently, the Coonoor Municipality Commissioner holds further complaint successful Kotagiri.
“Further, the staffing presumption of the municipality is highly weak. Out of 31 sanctioned posts, lone 10 are filled, leaving 21 posts vacant. In reality, lone the Sanitary Inspector, Assistant Sanitary Inspector, Municipal Engineer and Assistant Engineer are successful position, portion indispensable posts specified arsenic Manager, Accountant, Junior Assistant, Office Assistant, Town Planning personnel, drivers, operators and tract unit stay unfilled. With specified a ample fig of vacancies, the municipality is incapable to execute adjacent basal civic and administrative functions,” they said successful the letter.
Moreover, the municipal bundle required for spot taxation assessment, billing, accounting, and receipt procreation has not been operationalised. We recognize that activation of the bundle is pending owed to an interior departmental oregon vendor-level fiscal request of astir ₹2 lakh, which has not yet been processed. Owing to this, citizens are incapable to wage spot taxation oregon person valid receipts, resulting successful sizeable hardship. These circumstances person efficaciously near Kotagiri Municipality functioning lone successful name, without the administrative infrastructure required to present municipal services, the relation added.
The relation said that arsenic per the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920, the posting of a full-time Executive Authority (Municipal Commissioner), the filling of sanctioned unit strength, and the availability of operational integer systems are mandatory for a municipality to discharge its statutory responsibilities. “In the lack of these foundational requirements, the declared municipality is incapable to service its intended purpose. The spread betwixt the argumentation determination of upgradation and the contiguous crushed world has created important difficulties for the residents of Kotagiri,” it said, calling connected the Collector to instantly intervene successful the posting of a full-time commissioner successful Kotagiri, filling sanctioned unit positions immediately, and guarantee bundle activation.
