KMC to shut down accounts of all its departments

Payments will be possible only with signatures of
deputy mayor and KMC municipal commissioner

The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation decided on Tuesday to shut down the accounts of all its departments.

Now all payments will be made with the signatures of the deputy mayor and the KMC municipal commissioner.

Department heads will no longer be able to make payments and departments will not operate their own accounts.

These decisions were made in a meeting chaired by deputy mayor Dr Arshad Vohra. Municipal commissioner Dr Badar Jameel, financial adviser Khalid Mehmood Shaikh, Works and Services DG Niaz Soomro and other department heads attended the meeting.

Vohra said the KMC needed to search for new income sources and set priorities to maintain financial discipline in the organisation. He added that up to Rs7 billion regularly coming up in the budget in the last few years had not been recovered.

He urged department heads to prepare new schemes. He also told the law department to remove the hurdles in increasing the number of revenue generation sources.

He said the parks department should chalk out new schemes and the municipal utility services charges base needed to be widened.

The financial adviser in his briefing said Rs30billion needed to be recovered in Karachi and it could only be possible if the departments worked actively.

Vohra said all accounts maintained by the KMC departments would be closed immediately. Payments would only be possible with the approval of the deputy mayor and the municipal commissioner.

 

Swiss CG meets Vohra

Swiss Consul General in Karachi Philippe Crevoisier met with Vohra at the latter’s office and discussed matters of mutual interest. The deputy mayor presented a shield to the consul general.