With an idea to save paper and time, GHMC and general council had taken a unanimous decision to provide a laptop and a printer to each of the corporators. Thus each corporator was provided with a laptop and a printer worth 35 thousand rupees each. The facility had been provided to a total of 150 corporators and 5 co-opted members the total expenditure amounted to 88 lakhs 50 thousand rupees. But due to lack of modern knowledge and computer know-how the laptops remained in their houses gathering dust. The department has badly failed in its idea.
It has been learnt that some have given their laptops to their children while some have even sold them. As there is no condition of educational qualification for municipal elections, nearly all corporators are non matric and a majority of them do not know English and even more are not computer savvy.
As they don’t have any knowledge of internet they can’t even check the e-mails sent by the department hence they don’t attend meetings. Due to these reasons it has been decided to get back to the old method of paper work.
Sadly the huge sum of money spent for the corporators which the municipal corporation collects from the general public by way of various taxes has gone waste just because of incapability and heedlessness of corporators.
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