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Staff crunch hits Kamareddy municipality
The municipality here is acutely understaffed with various posts in many of the departments remaining vacant for the past several years paralysing services to the residents of the town.
Kamareddy: The municipality here is acutely understaffed with various posts in many of the departments remaining vacant for the past several years paralysing services to the residents of the town.
For the civic administration to function like a well-oiled machine providing various amenities to the people, the vacancies should be filled immediately.
On account of the lackadaisical attitude of the State government, many of the civic body’s posts remained unfilled.
The Grade-2 municipality, with one-lakh population spread over 14.11 square km, is struggling with resolving various problems of the town’s residents because of shortage of hands.
The town has 33 municipal wards, 15-km-long CC roads, 54-km-long black top roads, 54.4-km-long drainages, 5,382 street lights, 6,800 Asara pensioners and 18,000 houses. However, vacant posts in crucial departments of the civic body are staring in the face of the development.
The functioning of town planning department in the civic body was at its worse. Unauthorised constructions are going on in full swing. In place of four town planning officers, only one officer is working in the town planning section on deputation basis.
The department requires four town planning officers, four town planning supervisors and six field assistants. To tackle the ever growing sanitation problem in the expanding town, three sanitary inspectors are required.
An inspector each is required for old town and new town. The third inspector will be useful during emergencies. Two sanitary inspector posts remained vacant and also that of a public health assistant.
The civic body is in need of 12 junior assistants to issue birth and death certificates and to collect water tax. The number of assistant engineers in the engineering department should be increased.
The current tax receipts of Rs 3.90 crore per annum will double if proper supervision is undertaken deploying additional bill collectors at the field level.
The current strength of six bill collectors should be increased to either eight or ten in view of rapidly expanding contours of the town.
Speaking to The Hans India here on Monday Kamareddy municipal chairperson P Pushpa said that 120 workers were engaged on outsourcing basis in sanitation, street lights, water supply and other departments of the civic body. Further, 155 sanitation workers are inadequate to deal with the sanitation problem, she added.
By: Amber Rajasekhar
