Haryana government today decided to abolish the Municipal Corporation, Ambala,
and to have Ambala City and Ambala Sadar as separate Municipal Councils.
A decision to this effect was taken by the state cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar here today, said an official release.
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Moreover, the military station and cantonment areas of Ambala Cantonment Board also breaks the geographical continuity of Ambala city with Ambala Sadar area, as the cantonment area falls between these two areas.
Apart from this, the two areas fall under two different assembly constituencies, said an official release.
The town of Ambala Sadar is situated at a distance of around 10 to 12 kilometres from the main municipal corporation office at Ambala city.
The Commissioner of the Corporation and all the branch heads have their offices in the main office.
Apart from this, most of the 15 villages of Ambala Sadar area are situated further away from the main Corporation office and for most of the municipal works and redressal of grievances, the people of Ambala Sadar have to visit corporation office at Ambala city.
For works other than those related to the Municipal Corporation (MC), the people of Ambala Sadar have to visit various sub-divisional offices like SDM, tehsildar, police, power, public health, education and health.
Similarly, the people of Ambala City have separate sub-divisional offices located at Ambala city.
As per 2011 census, the population of the Ambala City area was 1,95,153. Similarly, the population for Ambala Sadar area was 1,70,223 respectively, it said.
The continuation of the MC was also not financially viable. The income of Municipal Corporation, Ambala for the financial year 2016-17 was Rs 51.15 crore, it said.
Against this, the expenditure of the Corporation on their own establishment charges like salary, provident fund share, pension, gratuity of its employees and other local and mandatory obligations like audit fees, repayment of loans contracted by them was Rs 51.19 crore, which is 100.08 per cent of the income.
Similarly, for the financial year 2015-16, the expenditure was 104.89 per cent of income. The income and expenditure details of the Corporation from financial year 2010-11 to 2016-17, show that the expenditure of the Municipal Corporation, Ambala was more than 80 per cent of the total income, except in Financial Year 2013-14.
The Cabinet also approved the proposal of Urban Local Bodies Department regarding sale of Faridabad Municipal Corporation land measuring 2.5 acres to the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited for installation of 66 KV Sub Station.
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