State Cabinet showers sops with an eye on GHMC civic polls, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Cabinet Meeting K. Chandrasekhar Rao, GHMC Elections 2016, GHMC Polls Notification 2016,Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation

State Cabinet showers sops with an eye on GHMC civic polls, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Cabinet Meeting  K. Chandrasekhar Rao, GHMC Elections 2016, GHMC Polls Notification 2016,Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation

With the elections to GHMC round the corner, the State Government has announced several sops to the low income sections including increasing the 2BHK house/flat unit cost to Rs.7 lakh from the existing Rs.5.3 lakh and provision of lift to the multi-storeyed housing complex to be built for weaker sections.

It was one of the 50 to 60 decisions taken at a marathon meeting of the State Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao here on Saturday.

The meeting went on for over eight hours spread over three spells from 11.45 a.m. Briefing newspersons after the meeting, the Chief Minister said the increase in the unit cost had become necessary since some buildings were planned up to nine floors.

Other decisions that could entice the poor included collecting domestic energy charges for consumption up to 200 units a month for hair-dressing saloons as commercial category charges were being collected hitherto. To provide some sort of livelihood security to hawkers/street vendors, the government has decided to issue identity cards to them, earmark space for them to carry out their activity without any disturbance from the police or other government machinery.

Fiscal performance

On the fiscal performance of the State, the Chief Minister said the State’s own Revenue (SoR) including tax and non-tax receipts was set to register a healthy 15 per cent growth. They had discussed at length on department-wise allocation for plan-expenditure including formulation of district cards with the details of allocation sector-wise allocation.

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