Mamata Banerjee proclaims dolts in Goa however cant pay KMC workers

A month after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee promised ₹5000 to the feminine head of each family in Goa every month, it has come to gentle that the Trinamool Congress-run-Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is unable to pay wages attributable to a monetary crunch.
On Thursday (January 27) night, KMC introduced that it can’t pay pensions to workers who retired after September 2021. The civic physique knowledgeable that it was untenable to cough up ₹50 crores of pension every month at a time when it needed to pay ₹150 crores of salaries to present workers.
A discover by the civic physique learn, “Payments of pension and pensionary benefits (to the retired employees who have been superannuated from September 2021) are not currently released due to crisis of fund.” There are 22,000 everlasting workers and 26,000 contractual workers working for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Screengrab of the KMC discover
Besides retired workers, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation didn’t pay salaries to its contract workers members and day by day wage labourers for the previous 8 months. Reportedly, KMC officers are not sure whether or not they may clear the dues of the unpaid employees or regularise the pension of the retired workers. “Right now, it is impossible when the financial situation will normalise. We are trying to solve the situation,” knowledgeable a senior civic physique official.
Reportedly, revenues generated by KMC from property taxes have declined drastically up to now 2 years. As such, the civic physique has resorted to stringent measures in bringing all untaxed property and properties underneath the fold of taxation.
In a bid to tide over the monetary crunch, Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim sought ₹700 crores from the West Bengal authorities and a ₹2000 crore mortgage from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Despite this, the monetary well being of the civic physique is way from higher. Even the TMC-run-State authorities needed to borrow a whopping ₹6500 crore from the open market in three instalments in January 2022 alone.
On December 21, 2021, TMC swept the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, with the get together profitable 134 out of 144 seats. The BJP had received 3 seats, Left 2, Congress 2 whereas others received 3 seats every. In 2015, TMC had 114 seats, BJP had 7, Left events had 15 whereas Congress and others had 5 and three seats respectively. 
Mamata Banerjee lures voters in Goa with money
Ahead of the upcoming elections in Goa, TMC had introduced freebies to lure voters within the coastal State. It had promised an formidable ‘Griha Laxmi scheme’ underneath which ₹5000 shall be transferred to the checking account of the feminine head of each family every month. The scheme is focused at a whopping 3.5 lakh households in Goa and can value about ₹1500-2000 crores.
The scheme, which is but to see the sunshine of the day, is prone to represent 6-8% of the State price range alone. Interestingly, an identical initiative by the title of ‘Laxmir Bhandar’ is underway within the State of West Bengal. However, the Mamata Banerjee authorities has thus far been in a position to pay solely ₹500 (normal class) and ₹1000 (reserved class) to every family each month. The assured quantity in Goa’s case has been stored at 5-10 instances its achieved goal in West Bengal.
TMC chief Mahua Moitra had claimed, “It is a very transformative scheme for the people of Goa. We’ve started the same scheme with great success in West Bengal. Griha Laxmi scheme is very easy to understand. It is a direct transfer scheme and the female head of every household will be receiving Rs 5,000 a month. It will be directly transferred to their bank account. To avail this scheme, one doesn’t have to be a part of any particular caste or community.”
While KMC has been unable to pay pension to its retired workers and has withheld the salaries of the contractual employees/ day by day wage labourers, the monetary mismanagement and administrative laxity of the Mamata Banerjee-run-government has change into evident. For a celebration that’s unable to place a civil physique so as, its claims to roll out the formidable scheme of ‘Griha Laxmi’ in Goa appears to be a far-fetched actuality.