Tuesday 18 November 2014

Resolutions of MCGM become redundant due to overlooking by the Central & State Govt's

The Councillors of MCGM in the past five years tabled and passed resolutions on various subjects majorly on developmental issues and beneficial for the genenal public gets redundant as the said resolutions when sent to the Central and State Govt for necessary approvals do not receive the response due to lack of necessary pursual by the MCGM officials. In the past 5 years 142 such resolutions approved in the MCGM and sent to Central / State Govt has become redundant due to such non pursual by the Municipal Secretary dept of the MCGM. This information was revealed in a reply to on RTI query filed by RTI Activist Anil Galgali.

RTI Activist Anil Galgali had filed an query with the MCGM administration seeking details of the Resolutions of the MCGM sent or pending with the Central / State Govts for approval / assistance. The Municipal Secretary dept in a reply to the query informed Galgali that, Since 28th May 2009 to 02nd May 2014, 143 Resolutions on various issues raised and discussed in the House by the Councillors were sent to the Central or State Govt for necessary approvals. Out of this 143 resolutions, the MCGM received a report on only 1 Resolution as on date. This has happened only due to lackluster non pursual by the Municipal Secretary dept.

Any Proposal or resolutions or any communication which is conducted by the MCGM with the Central or State Govts have to be vigorously pursued by the Municipal Secretary Dept, through which the correspondence is done in MCGM. But it seems that this dept has failed to pursue with the respective govt departments to seek response on its communications, due to which efforts of various Councillors who initiate and move these proposals and further debate to get them approved by the House have gone to waste, alleged Galgali. Galgali has now demanded from the Mayor & Municipal Commissioner to initiate action against the Municipal Secretary for this negligence which has caused insult of the House.


The Only Response.

On 16/08/2013, the MCGM forwarded, Resolution no 629, on the issue of The MCGM sanctions for development of RG / PG land in MHADA Layout should not be given until the said land's property card is not transferred in the name of MCGM. The State Govt on June, 2014 sent a copy of its report prepared by it to the MCGM.

What are these Resolutions?

There are some very important resolutions sent to Central or State Govt for approval, some important amongst them are - Formulating a law to initiate criminal action against persons found causing wastage of Water, Restriction on sale of Gutka and other tobacco related products in Mumbai, Creating a column in the Driving Licence to intimate the Consent of person to donate the body after the death, The Permission to issue domicile certificate's to citizens through its CFC's in its Ward Offices, Declare Mangrove areas as National heritage to ensure its protection and conservation, Cornea's of Accidental death victims be immediately removed and given to persons on waiting list of blind people awaiting donation, Modify law to protect the surrogate mothers against exploitation and cheating on financial agreements.

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