Pet keeping becomes dearer in Shimla, MC to hike fee
The Shimla Municipal Corporation highest urbanised civic body of the hill state decided to hike the fee being charged for Pet keeping in the capital towns.
In the Shimla MC monthly house, a councillor Ms. Monica Chandel raised the issue of increasing cases of animal or dog bites in the city. She stated that increasing incidents of dog bites are making kids and elderly people their victims require solutions. These stray dogs are also creating a civic menace as it was flitting streets with waste after feeding on the food and meat cookies.
Municipal Corporation Shimla Mayor Surendra Chauhan stated that increasing monkey and dog bite needs to be a compulsory solution by the civic authority. He said that the fee for keeping a dog in the Municipal Corporation House would be hiked from Rs 500 to Rs 1000 annually so that additional revenue could be generated to manage the civic body cannery.
The mayor also showed resentment for the absence of a few MC officers from the meeting. He said that notice has also been issued to the concerned authorities to ensure the presence of officers in the meeting.
Among others issues of parking in the market, stray dogs, and street lights resonated in the House are raised by the battery of councillors.
Lower Bazaar councilor Umang Banga said that local traders in the market are facing problems due to a lack of parking.
In many areas, vehicles belonging to other states and far-flung areas are permitted to violate prohibitory orders as vehicles are plying on sealed roads without permits, however, those having valid permits are facing the challenge of wrong. parking due to the paucity of places on their designated parking lots.
Under the point of order, Councilor Saroj Thakur raised the issue of arbitrary recruitment of drivers in the SMC and sought information about the matter.
The councilors also pointed out that people are grooping in the darkness after a month of rainy season as many streets light knocked down by uprooting of trees and their branches.
Most of the councilors express concern that many areas in the towns reeling with the problems of disrupted street lights. They demanded that in every rainy and snowy season, uprooting of trees renders heavy loss of SMC street lights in such a situation, Municipal Corporation Shimla should pass a resolution and send it to the Forest Department so that the branches coming in front of the street light can be cut.
The house unanimously passed a resolution that the Forest of the civic body is under the forest department therefore it should ensure that branches of trees or unsafe trees hanging on the power supply lines should be prone and removed to keep the unruppted power supply in all areas.
