Chaos precedes GHMC Budget
Hyderabad, Jan 10 (INN): The GHMC Budget presentation was preceeded chaos as various parties used the meeting to highlight the issues uppermost in their minds. Corporators of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday rocked the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Special Budget meeting, raising 'Jai Telangana' slogans and demanding that a resolution be passed by the Corporation calling for a separate state, among others. Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy, who was about to present the GHMC's Budget at the special meeting was forced to placate the BJP Corporators and assure them that a decision on the demand for a resolution would be taken later.
The BJP Corporators were demanded that the resolution should seek a separate Telangana state, the withdrawal of Forces from Telangana region and the curbs on media on reporting the agitations going on at the Osmania University be lifted. Earlier, Telugu Desam Party Floor Leader in the GHMC, Singireddy Srinivas Reddy demanded that the GO 86 be suspended, since it is illegal. The GO makes it mandatory that the GHMC levies a penalty of 200 per cent on unauthorised constructions.
Responding to Mr Singireddy's demands, GHMC Commissioner Sameer Sharma said that the Corporation is entitled to levy penalties up to 400 per cent, as per the directions of the High Court. Dr Sameer Sharma's remarks led to the TDP Corporators raising a furore in the Council Hall. Responding to the Dr Sameer Sharma's clarification, MIM Corporator Mir Zulfiqar Ali said that under Section 230, Clause 3 of the GHMC's constitution, only 25 per cent penalty can be imposed. He added that the GO is illegal and is contrary to the GHMC's constitution.
News Posted: 10 January, 2011
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