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Time of India
17-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
UT asks MC to give utilization certificate for village devpt funds
Chandigarh: The UT finance department has asked the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) to provide a utilisation certificate for Rs 50 crore allocated under the village development fund (VDF) in 2021. The funds were distributed across various developmental projects, with Rs 19 crore designated for the building and road wing, Rs 90 lakh for horticulture initiatives, and the remaining amount for public health infrastructure. The finance department has forwarded a detailed communication to the MC, requesting comprehensive utilisation details in a segregated format. A specific proforma accompanies the letter, requiring the MC to provide information about individual projects, including administrative approvals, payment details and associated liabilities. The official communication states: "It is to inform you that the Chandigarh Administration, dated March 26, 2021, provided a Grant-in-Aid of Rs 50 crore for the development works in 13 villages and an additional Rs 25 crore towards committee liabilities under the revenue head. The Utilisation Certificate (UC) for the total amount received from the Chandigarh Administration for the works under the Village Development Funds should be sent to the quarters concerned under intimation to this office. List of works to be undertaken in this financial year. You are therefore requested to submit the above information by today positively. This may be treated as top priority." Department sources said the MC's continuous requests for additional funding, coupled with their failure to submit previous utilisation certificates, prompted this directive. The VDF allocation was supplementary to the regular grant-in-aid (GIA). Mayor's request The finance department's move on the UC comes shortly after the city mayor's appeal for dedicated village development funds. Despite the mayor's letter to the UT chief secretary in late April, requesting specific funding for village development projects , the UT has not released any additional funds. A recent financial review meeting concluded that with ongoing GIA disbursements to the MC, additional funding allocations are presently unfeasible. MSID:: 121239161 413 | Chandigarh: The UT finance department has asked the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) to provide a utilisation certificate for Rs 50 crore allocated under the village development fund (VDF) in 2021. The funds were distributed across various developmental projects, with Rs 19 crore designated for the building and road wing, Rs 90 lakh for horticulture initiatives, and the remaining amount for public health infrastructure. The finance department has forwarded a detailed communication to the MC, requesting comprehensive utilisation details in a segregated format. A specific proforma accompanies the letter, requiring the MC to provide information about individual projects, including administrative approvals, payment details and associated liabilities. The official communication states: "It is to inform you that the Chandigarh Administration, dated March 26, 2021, provided a Grant-in-Aid of Rs 50 crore for the development works in 13 villages and an additional Rs 25 crore towards committee liabilities under the revenue head. The Utilisation Certificate (UC) for the total amount received from the Chandigarh Administration for the works under the Village Development Funds should be sent to the quarters concerned under intimation to this office. List of works to be undertaken in this financial year. You are therefore requested to submit the above information by today positively. This may be treated as top priority." Department sources said the MC's continuous requests for additional funding, coupled with their failure to submit previous utilisation certificates, prompted this directive. The VDF allocation was supplementary to the regular grant-in-aid (GIA). Mayor's request The finance department's move on the UC comes shortly after the city mayor's appeal for dedicated village development funds. Despite the mayor's letter to the UT chief secretary in late April, requesting specific funding for village development projects, the UT has not released any additional funds. A recent financial review meeting concluded that with ongoing GIA disbursements to the MC, additional funding allocations are presently unfeasible. MSID:: 121239161 413 |
Time of India
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Manipur extends services of 10,500 Village Defence Force personnel till March 2026 amid fresh security challenges
Live Events Search operation Militants arrested (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Guwahati: The Manipur government has extended the services of 10,500 Village Defence Force (VDF) personnel for one more government's Home Department's Joint Secretary, Mayengbam Veto Singh, said that the state government recognises the roles played by the VDF personnel as a major component of manpower of the Manipur Police in providing security to the general added that as per terms and conditions of service of VDF, engagement of VDF would be initially for one year and extendable from time to time as per the requirement of the situation and the state government from time-to-time extended the period of engagement of VDF personnel after verification of requirement and said that the Governor-in-Council in its meeting, on Thursday, had approved the extension of the period of engagement of service of the existing 10,500 VDF personnel for a period of one year with effect from April 1, 2025, and till March 31, VDF personnel were deployed across the state and assisted the security forces in maintaining the law-and-order situation and ensuring the security of the villagers and local Ajay Kumar Bhalla chaired the meeting of 'Governor-in-Council' on Thursday at the Raj earlier the All-Manipur VDF Employees' Welfare Association threatened to launch an agitation demanding to extend their service period and increase their VDF personnel were also deployed in many conflict-prone red zones assisting in counter-insurgency operations and protecting civilians in peripheral Police on Saturday launched a massive search operation and requested four neighbouring northeastern states to nab a Kuki organisation leader who recently warned members of the Meitei community against entering Kuki tribal-dominated areas during the upcoming Shirui Lily Police in a statement on Saturday said that Paojakhup Guite, President of the Delhi unit of Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO), threatened the Meitei community not to cross the buffer zone to attend the upcoming Shirui Lily Festival in Ukhrul district, which is inhabited by the Kuki-Zo-Hmar tribal community people.'A video of Guite's threat to the Meitei community people was earlier circulated on social media,' the statement said, adding that Police in Churachandpur district have registered an FIR and all efforts, including raids in nearby districts, are being made for his immediate Police also requested the police authority of four neighbouring northeastern states - Mizoram, Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya - to arrest Guite as quickly as police also released a photograph of Guite.'All necessary security arrangements shall be made to ensure the security of people attending the Shirui Lily festival next week,' the statement Police have earlier refuted the existence of a group calling itself the 'Kuki Zo Village Volunteers Eastern Zone', which recently reportedly circulated a statement warning members of the Meitei community against entering Kuki-dominated areas during the upcoming Shirui Lily Lily Festival, mostly organised by the Meitei community, is celebrated in honour of the state flower, Shirui Lily. The celebration is during the peak blooming season of the Shirui Lily, a rare and endangered flower that can only be found in extremists belonging to various banned groups were arrested in the past 24 hours from different districts of the trouble-torn state of Manipur in combined operations by security forces.A police official said that the nine militants were arrested from five districts -- Imphal East, Imphal West, Churachandpur, Thoubal and arrested ultras belong to the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Chin Kuki National Defence Force (CKNDF) and United National Liberation Front (UNLF).The arrested militants were involved in abduction, different types of crimes, threatening people for various purposes, forcible collection of money from contractors, traders, government employees, common men and others.
