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Hans India
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
GMC mayoral election today
Guntur: The Guntur Municipal Corporation Telugu Desam Party floor leader Kovelamudi Ravindra (Nani) filed nomination to contest in the mayoral election to be held on Monday at GMC office. The government is conducting the Guntur mayoral election in the backdrop of resignation of mayor Kavati Sivanaga Manohar Naidu. He submitted his nomination papers to the joint collector and mayoral election presiding officer A Bhargav Teja at the collectorate on Sunday. The government directed Guntur district joint collector A Bhargav Teja to conduct the GMC mayoral election. TDP has an absolute majority in the GMC council to elect the mayor and it may be mentioned that the TDP-JSP bagged all the GMC standing committee seats in the GMC. Ravindra is likely to be elected as a mayor. Following orders of the government, the JC issued notices to all the corporators, ex-officio members of the GMC to attend the mayoral election. He visited the GMC office in Guntur city on Sunday and reviewed the arrangements in the GMC council hall for conducting the special council meeting to elect the mayor. He said a special council meeting will be held at 11 am on Monday and urged all the members to attend the meeting with the identity cards by 10.30 am. He said that except members, others are not allowed into council hall and cell phones are not allowed into the council hall. He further said that Section-144 will be in force in the GMC office surroundings. He instructed the police officials to take all the precautionary measures. TDP and YSRCP issued whips and submitted the whips to Bhargav Teja. Ravindra submitted his B Form to Bhargav Teja.
Express Tribune
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Standard operating torture
Pakistan refuses to reform its archaic bureaucratic processes. Ordinary citizens loaded with worthless photocopies, application forms and affidavits are made to visit, wait and bribe the peons in government offices to receive the most ordinary and mundane services. How does the 21st Century Pakistan create misery in the lives of its ordinary citizens. Here is what a parent has to undergo to obtain a child's Transfer Certificate (TC) when relocating from one government school to another. Visit the old school and ask for the TC. You are asked to fill an application form and come again with the filled form along with photocopies of the child's B Form, Birth Certificate and father's CNIC. Thus, a second visit is required to deposit the assembled documents. You are now told to come after two or three days. The third visit (for collection of TC), would invariably meet a standard response: 'Please come again as the school principal has not been available to sign the TC.' The individual seeking the certificate understands that any arguments could only result in further delay. He obsequiously agrees to make a fourth visit after another two days. This time he is told to wait, as the principal is busy. He waits for an hour or so, till the TC is signed and handed over. Four visits and bundles of irrelevant photocopies of documents already held by government are the standard operating torture (SOT) for ordinary citizen to obtain the routine government services. Pakistan ought to treat its citizens with respect and eliminate all visits to government offices and learn how the world has linked all government services to avoid endless submission of photocopies. Naeem Sadiq Karachi
