PANJIM: Panjimites seeking a residential certificate or name change for the purpose of applying for a Portuguese passport, will now have to shell out Rs 1000, each, with the City Corporation proposing an over 300 percent hike in administrative fees.
However, with no additional taxation burden on city residents, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) on Thursday presented a Rs 6.40 crore deficit budget for the financial year 2016-17.
At a budget size of Rs 54.02 crore, CCP has estimated revenue receipts of Rs 48.50 crore, anticipating around Rs 26.30 crore through house tax (Rs 15 cr), advertisements and signboards (Rs 1.50 cr), octroi (Rs 2.30 cr), building permission fees (Rs 5 cr) and trade license (Rs 1.50 cr).
On the other hand, the annual expenditure will be of over Rs 25.40 crore on employees including regular salaries (Rs 18.61 cr), salaries of daily wage and contract employees (Rs 3.82cr), pension (Rs 1.02 cr), retirement benefit (Rs 1.10 cr), honorarium to Mayor and Corporators (Rs 34 lakh), contribution to salary reserve funds (Rs 20 lakh) and benefit to staff (Rs 29.50 lakh).
CCP has earmarked around Rs 13 lakh on the Central government schemes like Smart City, AMRUT, Swacch Bharat Abhiyan and NULUM related services and will spend nearly Rs 2.50 crore on various repairs and maintenance work.
Commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues said, “Expenditure on employees is our biggest expenditure head,” adding that the 7th Pay commission expenditure has not been added in the financial statement.
Earlier, he presented the various proposal approved by the standing committee headed by Mayor Surendra Furtado, which included the hike in residential certificates or name change for the purpose of applying for the Portuguese passport. For residential certificate, the person would be charged Rs 1000 as against the current price Rs 30. The others would be charged Rs 50.
In case of correction of names, for Portuguese passport purpose, the individual would be charged Rs 1000.
