PANAJI: Failing to recover exorbitant dues from various contractors entrusted with the task of collecting its revenue from different sources, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has decided to get legal vetting from an advocate, for its agreements with the contractors, as regards collection of parking fees, Sopo fees, rent and so on.
The City Mayor Surendra Furtado in a letter written to the CCP Commissioner Dipak Desai on Tuesday said, “It is observed that on account of some lacunae in the agreements executed by the Corporation of the City of Panaji with the contractors for collection of parking fees, sopo fees, rent, etc, the contractors are not paying the dues to the Corporation regularly, and in time, as a result of which this Corporation is incurring huge financial losses.”
“It is therefore suggested that to avoid such lapses and lacunae in the agreements to be executed in future, we may send the present agreements to advocate Pranay Kamat, who is on the panel of advocates of the Corporation of the City of Panaji, to examine if any changes/ addition are required therein and send them back to us,” the letter adds. The copies of agreements include those for the city pay parking, sopo collection and towing of vehicles/ clamping of vehicles.
Speaking to ‘The Navhind Times’, Furtado said that the present agreement with the contractor as regards collection of the pay parking fees will expire by the end of this month. “If we get into such agreement in the future, then I want to make sure that the agreement has more teeth,” he added.
When asked if the CCP would let go the pay parking fees-related dues from the present contractor, the City Mayor said that he would soon initiate recovery proceedings against the contractor. “We may even lodge a police complaint against the contractor for non-payment of dues to the Corporation,” he stated. The Mayor also informed that the CCP budget for the year 2017-18 would be presented on
April 7.