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The services of Rajviraj Municipality are affected due to the absence of Municipal Assembly
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Highlights
- If the employees are not getting paid, there is a problem in the cleaning of the city area and even in the management of corpses
Rajviraj municipality of Saptari has not been able to hold the Municipal Assembly for the fiscal year 2081/082 due to the dispute between the people's representatives. Even after two months of the new financial year, there is no news about holding a council meeting. As a result, the essential services of the municipality have also been affected.
There are no tasks such as settlement meeting, ward meeting, city level meeting, plan identification, plan selection, master plan creation etc. which are done before the town meeting.
Bishnu Prasad Gurung, Chief Administrative Officer, said that since the Municipal Assembly could not be held, the employees could not even get their salaries. He said that due to the failure of the Municipal Assembly, the sanitation work has been affected and the situation has been created that the sweepers engaged in sanitation have stopped coming to work.
Gurung said that the municipality has been providing tractors for funerals to those who died within the city area, and since the municipal assembly could not be held, Gurung said that there was also a problem in the management of bodies because there was no condition to put fuel in the tractor.
'From the salary of the employees to the purchase of clothes, from cleaning to the management of bodies, from the maintenance of vehicles to the daily operation of the office, Gurung said . There is no situation for the employees to get salary even in the coming Dasain as the Municipal Council cannot be held.
The municipal assembly could not be held because the people's representatives could not agree on the budget allocation. Ward No. who is also the spokesperson of the municipality. The Ward President of 8 Jainarayan Mandal alleged that the Municipal Assembly could not be held due to the irresponsibility of Acting Mayor Israt Parvin and Chief Administrative Officer Bishnu Prasad Gurung.
'The Acting Mayor has no time off from the party program. On the other hand, the Chief Administrative Officer is not free to write proverbs and jokes. Where should the council be from?', he said. The council said that it was sad that the executive meeting could not be held on the issue of Municipal Assembly.
Israt Parveen, the Acting Mayor of Rajviraj Municipality, admitted that the Municipal Assembly could not be held due to the budget conflict. Ward presidents say they want a ceiling of two million rupees, so there should be that much money, right?'' Acting Mayor Parveen said, 'There are other municipalities too. There is also experience in the past. We have tried to give a budget ceiling of 60-65 lakhs in the ward. But the ward presidents do not agree. Because of this, the Municipal Assembly cannot be held.'
प्रकाशित : भाद्र २६, २०८१ १६:०७
