Chandigarh administration mulls extending Mayor’s term to 5 years | Chandigarh News
The Chandigarh Administration is making ready to give a go forward to improve the Mayor’s term to 5 years. According to sources, Chandigarh Administrator Gulab Chand Kataria has requested the UT officers to put together a report on the matter in a gathering with the Chief Secretary and different officers that befell at Raj Bhawan.
Already, the Administrator has modified the best way of voting in Mayoral elections by the use of present of fingers, which shall be carried out within the subsequent election in a bid to stop cross voting.
“The Administrator has asked to prepare a report so that it can be sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs, which will further decide on the issue. Already Panchkula and Mohali have the Mayor’s term for five years and a similar provision is being pushed for Chandigarh as well,” a senior official of the Chandigarh administration stated.
A Mayor in Chandigarh is elected from amongst the elected councillors for a one-year term. Every yr in January, the Mayor elections happen within the ‘City Beautiful’.
In Chandigarh, all govt powers relaxation with the Commissioner of the civic physique, whereas the Mayor has none. The Mayor has only one energy, which is to convene a House assembly or any assembly or simply determine on which all agendas to deliver within the General House assembly. All the earlier Mayors have been complaining that regardless of them and the councillors being the one elected consultant within the Union Territory (UT), they haven’t any powers to get residents’ works performed. A councillor or a Mayor has to request the administration officers and guarantee bond to see that work is finished.
In case if there’s a Mayor in council as resolved by the General House as effectively, the Mayor and committee chairpersons could have powers at par with that of the Minister of State. The Mayor and chairpersons could have a say in each coverage matter — a choice which at current is with the bureaucrats.
Currently, bureaucrats posted in Chandigarh have all of the powers, be it overseeing the tender allotment or writing ACRs of workers. Even transfers and postings of the staff are determined by the bureaucrats. This will make the staff accountable to the Mayor else they don’t pay heed and pay attention solely to the officers who come only for three years whereas a public consultant is duly elected by the general public.
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All these years it’s the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act 1976 that’s prolonged to Chandigarh and governs all of the civic physique in Chandigarh. However sure legal guidelines of the Punjab MC act have additionally been diluted which can be prolonged in Chandigarh.
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