Congress corporators oppose revised SAS

Congress corporators oppose revised SAS

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Feb 8: The members of the Congress in Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) protested against the newly revised and implemented self-assessment scheme (SAS), in front of the MCC office on Feb 8, Monday.

Harinath, the Congress leader, warned that the MCC will tax every inch of property owned by the people if the BJP implements SAS in Mangalore. He accused the MCC of harassing the people by not issuing the required building licenses and instead sending them to MUDA for technical advice. He stressed that Mangalore does not need MUDA because it already has MCC.

 

 

 

 
M S Hegde, the Congress spokesperson, criticized that the CDP has made even the construction of houses difficult. He said that the MCC has not given licenses to anybody to construct houses; and when questioned about it, District-in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar said that if people construct houses without a license, they will have to be dealt with as per the Akrama Sakrama Scheme. He alleged that MCC’s policies are only for the rich, and not for the poor. He accused the MCC of pretending to be concerned about the poor while, all the time, they implement anti-poor policies.

Mamatha Gatti alleged that the MCC has failed in providing the people of Mangalore what they had asked for—clean drinking water, good roads, and houses to live in. She alleged that the BJP corporators are not interested in helping the poor people unlike the Congress, which is for the poor.
 

Accusing the BJP of working according to a secret agenda, DCC  President Ramanath Rai said that the party has implemented SAS without first making a detailed study of its merits and demerits. The Congress, on the other hand, had not implemented SAS because it knew that it would have an adverse effect on the people, he said.

U T Khader,MLA, Harikrishna Bantwal, Abdul Azeez, Badruddin, Purandaradas Kuloor, Tejaswiraj, Sadashiva Ullal, Suresh Shetty, Padmanabha, Shashidhar Hegde K M Masood, Ivan D’Souza, K Ashraf, and other Congress corporators participated in the protest.