Citizen Services in the GHMC continue to be hit as employees have been participating in the ongoing general strike. However, health and the sanitation wing staff have been performing their tasks like lifting, transporting garbage as well as sweeping roads.
Building permissions, trade licenses, collection of various taxes, whetting birth and death certificates have been held up for the last 14 days.
It has not only caused a lot of hardship to people at large but has also caused a huge dent in the coffers of the municipal corporation.
Senior officials estimate that more than Rs.6 crore revenue collection that is usually generated each day has been hit. Though there was a significant rise in the number of staff coming to office on Monday, union leaders shooed them away by shouting slogans. They made periodic rounds of the floors of the head office.
The scenario is not much different in the zonal and circle offices as well. There is also lot of uneasiness in the administration about the lack of regulation on the ongoing constructions and the various trades.
It is also that time of the month when the audit section is busy with salary disbursal preparations.
As per the prevailing situation it looks like the health and sanitation wing with more than 20,000 contract labour is the only department which will be in a position to take salaries.
Minus, of course, the near two-day strike which happened last week by the department as per the High Court direction of ‘no work-no pay'.
