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Corporators can use grants only uptill 7th December
- by Webdesk
- 24 Oct 2016
Mumbai Corporators may not be able to use their discretionary grants from December 7. According to a circular issued by the State Election Commission, elected representatives are forbidden to use the grants in the last three months of the corporation body’s tenure. This is done to avoid luring voters during their campaign.
The present tenure of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, ends of March 8.
A civic official said, “The circular clearly states that the grant cannot be utilised from the day the elections are announced or three months prior to the end of the body’s tenure. So we are estimating it to be from December 7, unless the elections are declared earlier.”
In the BMC, the country’s richest civic body, every corporator gets Rs60 lakhs at the beginning of the financial year. This fund is meant to be utilised for local development work as per the proposals mooted by the corporator himself.
The SEC order refers to a Supreme Court (SC) ruling which states that elected representatives make use of the grants at the eleventh hour, thereby, influencing voters.
The SC ruling states, “It should be understood that the energy to do public good should be used not on the eve of elections but much earlier. Payments from discretionary grants on the eve of elections should be avoided.”
Corporators said that they were prepared to make use of the funds in an appropriate schedule knowing that the city will be going to polls in 2017.
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