TEAM HERALD
bureau@herald-goa.com
PONDA: Ponda Municipal Council (PMC) on Friday resolved to revoke the services of four regular employees, on grounds that they were allegedly appointed illegally.
In two other major decisions, the PMC has agreed to implement a steep hike in fees of trade fairs (exhibitions) fees from Rs 5,000 per day to a whopping Rs 50,000 per day and will also hike the fees of birth and death certificates.
It may be recalled that PMC had recently written to the Vigilance Department to conduct an enquiry into the alleged irregularities by the previous council in appointing the four regular employees.
“Even PMC Chief Officer Johnson Fernandes, who conducted enquiry, found that there were irregularities. Hence, we have decided to revoke the services of four employees who were appointed illegally, subject to the report of the Vigilance Department,” informed PMC Chairperson Dr Radhika Nayak.
“However on humanitarian grounds, we have decided to use services of these four employees as daily-wage workers. The posts were actually reserved for children of freedom fighters and handicap, but the candidates were chosen from other categories,” she informed.
“During the previous council, other councillors and I had opposed the move of the then ruling councillors to appoint the four employees,” added Naik.
In the interest of traders in the city, PMC has decided to hike the fees in trade fairs (exhibitions) from Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000 per day per day.
The issue of traders being affected due to trade fairs was brought to the notice of the council by Sunil Dessai and the fees have been hiked with an aim to discourage trade fairs in the city.
PMC has also hiked fees of birth and death certificates from Rs 10 to Rs 25, late registration of births from Rs 25 to Rs 100 and corrections from Rs 50 to Rs 200.
It was also decided to build three sheds by spending Rs 6 lakh to dry manure generated from the organic waste convertors (OWC) in the land belonging to PMC at Keriyem in Curti-Khandepar Panchayat.
The council also passed a resolution to construct public toilet facilities in two different locations in the city.
