Tug-of-war: Faisalabad municipality, DC face-off over govt properties
FAISALABAD: The administration of a Faisalabad Municipal Corporation (FMC) has demanded a emissary commissioner to take suitable stairs for a grave send of a legitimate properties for effectively using a affairs of a municipality. The properties enclosed a General Bus Stand buildings, companies, authorities, metropolitan library and pavement plant.
In a communication sent to a Faisalabad emissary commissioner on Saturday, a FMC demanded that a emanate of send of a series of buildings and several supports were discussed in a assembly on Jan 14. However, stairs have not been taken nor any feedback has been perceived so far.
The minute forked out a General Bus Stand situated on an area of 247 kanal, including 3 petrol pumps, 164 workshops, 211 shops etc, is owned by a FMC nonetheless a same is still in a control of a Road Transfer Authority secretary. Besides, a supports and income generated from a GBS are still in a domain of a DC, a request stated.
It revealed, “Although a whole control of a GBS is underneath a administration that is also receiving a income from this source on a daily basis, nonetheless a FMC formulates payments of several growth projects as good as payments of several liabilities.” “The FMC is obliged for creation a remuneration of a staff operative during a GBS,” a minute added.
However, a FMC contended a properties are one of a categorical sources of a income and on a basement of a income generated from all these sources it has to delineate payments of several growth projects in sequence to transparent a liabilities.”
The FMC also forked out that another categorical source of a income is parking fee, nonetheless a same is being collected by a parking company.
Similarly, “The FMC has also been calm from collecting income generated from advertisements displayed and merged on signboards, nonetheless underneath a Punjab Local Government Act, 2013 it is a assign of a FMC to umpire affixing of signboards and advertisements,” a communication said.
Meanwhile, FMC Chief Officer Muhammad Zubair told The Express Tribune, “The General Bus Stand was grown and remained underneath a control of a FMC that also owned a land and other assets.”
In addition, after a devaluation devise and changes in a functioning of a FMC, a control of a General Bus Stand along with a resources and right of collection of income from a sources has been reserved to a city district supervision in 2002 that remained underneath a control of a city supervision compartment 2015, he said.
However, former DCO Noorul Ameen Mangal, who was also holding a assign of director in 2014, upheld an sequence to give a financial and executive control to a RTA secretary who was his subordinate.
Taking advantage of this executive order, a emissary commissioner is demure to give behind a executive and financial control of a GBS to a FMC that is not suitable in any manner, he asserted.
“FMC Mayor Malik Abdul Razzaq Ali asked a district administration to send a financial and executive control of a GBS and other profitable properties and sources of income to a FMC,” he maintained.
“We are infirm underneath a benefaction resources and scarcity of supports has literally rendered a FMC powerless. The mayor and residence of a FMC should accommodate shortly to marker out a plan to solve a longstanding grievances of a adults and for a alleviation of county infrastructure,” Zubair added.
On a other hand, DC Sulaman Ghani was regularly contacted though he was not accessible for comments.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 30th, 2017.
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