Directorate of Information & Publicity 
DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY
GOVERNMENT OF DELHI
New Delhi: 25/01/2016
- PLEASE FIND ATTACHED THE COMPLETE MINUTES OF THE 15 JANUARY MEETING, CHAIRED BY THE CHIEF MINISTER, IN WHICH THE FINANCIAL REALITY OF THREE MCDs WAS REVIEWED.
- THIS INCLUDES THE LIST OF ALL OFFICIALS WHO ATTENDED THE MEETING, INCLUDING THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE THREE MCDs.
It was informed in the meeting by the three commissioners of the corporations that they had received the entire budgeted amount for the current financial year under the non-planned head from the Delhi government, which is mainly used for payment of salaries of the MCD employees.
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI
DELHI SECRETARIAT, NEW DELHI-110002.
Minutes of the meeting taken by the Hon’ble Chief Minister on 15.01.2016 at 5.30 p.m. to review the status of funds released to Municipal Corporations.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister has reviewed the status of funds released to municipal corporations under Plan and Non-Plan to date. The meeting was attended by the Hon’ble Dy. Chief Minister, Pr. Secretary (Finance), Pr. Secretary (Transport), Divisional Commissioner, Secretary (H&FW), Director (Education) and all the three Municipal Commissioners.
The position of funds released as against Revised Estimates proposed by Government of Delhi are as under :-
Non-Plan
(i) Entire amount of Rs.892.92 crores earmarked under proposed Revised Estimate for North Delhi Municipal Corporation under Non-Plan has been released by the Government. In case of East Delhi Municipal Corporation, entire amount of Rs.465.53 crores has been released by the Government. In case of South Delhi Municipal Corporation, an amount of Rs.668 crores i.e. 80%, out of Rs.830.41 crores has been released. The remaining amount will be released by Monday, 18th January, 2016. Thus, entire funds under Non-Plan earmarked under proposed Revised Estimate has been / will be released to all three municipal corporations.
(ii) There is a provision of Rs.374 crores in the proposed Revised Estimate as Municipal Reform Fund for all three municipal corporations. The release of this fund is linked with the financial performance of local bodies and Government gives it as an incentive to them due to improvement in their financial position. All corporations except SDMC are in deficit and are not prima facie eligible to get the incentive. Commissioners pointed out that they have not received any funds under MRF for the last two years. The Commissioners requested that Corporations be given MRF on basis of improvements made, as current conditions in MRF is very stringent. The Commissioner, North Delhi Municipal Commission also mentioned that the recommendations of Fourth Finance Commission may also be implemented by the Government.
(ii) Plan
(i) In case of Education Sector under Plan, about 75% of budgeted amount has already been released to North Delhi Municipal Corporation and East Delhi Municipal Corporation and in case of South Delhi Municipal Corporation, about 53% of the budgeted amount has been released up to December 2015. The Hon’ble Chief Minister suggested that the remaining fund under Education and Health Sector may be released to all three municipal corporations. It was also pointed out in the meeting that about Rs.295 crores are available as an unspent balance of previous year under Education and Health Sector with all three corporations.
(ii) In case of Urban Development Sector, about 59% of the budgeted amount has been released to all three corporations and the remaining funds will be released in January 2016. However, in case of Transport Sector, about 25% funds have been released. The short release in this sector is due to the fact that the corporations have not submitted their proposals for release of funds. The position of requirement of Plan funds will be reviewed and thereafter remaining amount will be released on the basis of Revised Estimate.
(iii) In case of share of local bodies in the collection of Stamps and Registration Fees, all the claims raised by the corporations up to the month of November 2015 have already been paid to them. The remaining amount will be released immediately after getting the claims from the local bodies by the Revenue Department.
(iv) In case of payment of parking fees to local bodies, the payment has been made to local bodies up to the month of November 2015. The next tranche will be released in the month of February 2016. The payments are made after every two months.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
List of attendees
Shri S.N. Sahai, Principal Secretary (Finance)
Shri Parimal Rai, Principal Secretary (Transport)
Shri Amar Nath, Secretary (H&FW)
Shri P.K. Gupta, Commissioner, North DMC
Shri P.K. Goel, Commissioner, South DMC
Shri Mohanjit Singh, Commissioner, East DMC
Shri A. Anbarasu, Divisional Commissioner
Ms. Padmini Singhla, Director (Education)
Shri S.S. Gill, Special Secretary (UD)
Shri S.P. Singh, Special Secretary (Finance)
Dr. B.K. Sharma, Director (Planning)
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