Tax payment, building map approval through online: Online service mandatory from January 1
Mangaluru: Property tax, procurement of Khata (revenue document) can be managed online from January 1, 2018; as the civic services of urban local bodies will be made available online.
The government has ordered to compulsorily provide the civic services, including property taxes, revenue document, approval for building maps, water and electricity connections, and permit to cut the roads, to be covered online from January 1, 2019.
As per this, the service will be made available at Mangaluru City Corporation, Ullal Municipal Council, Mulki, Moodbidri Municipality, Bantwal Town Municipality, Belthangady, Sullia Town Panchayat next year. Along with this, the building license and layout approval system software has already been developed in all the local bodies of the state through the Karnataka Municipal Data Society. The government has already permitted for the customization at necessary places if required. During the 2018-19 state budget, it was announced that in order to facilitate the provision of civic services to the public, the automated online software would be developed and its use would be made mandatory.
Departments planning to dig roads for the installation of cables, pipes and OFC’s must apply online to take the permission from MCC. The specified amount must be paid. There is a rule that roads must be repaired after completion of the work. But, none of these are being practiced properly. Who is digging the road? What for they are digging? Who will repair them? There is no such information. But, after the online system is implemented, this culture is likely to come to an end.
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Harris distances herself from Biden's 'garbage' comment about Trump supporters
Washington (PTI): Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has distanced herself from a controversial comment made by her boss President Joe Biden, in which he referred to supporters of her Republican rival Donald Trump as 'garbage'.
“I think that, first of all, he clarified his comments. But let me be clear: I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for. You heard my speech last night and continuously throughout my career,” Vice President Harris told reporters Wednesday.
“I believe that the work that I do is about representing all the people, whether they support me or not. As president of the United States, I will be a president for all Americans, whether you vote for me or not,” she said, responding to a question on Biden's comment comparing Trump supporters to garbage.
Biden was commenting on a racist joke a comedian made at a Trump rally days earlier, likening Puerto Rico to an “island of garbage.”
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his (Trump's) supporters, his demonisation of Latinos is unconscionable and it's un-American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been,” Biden said in his remarks on a campaign call for Latino voters on Tuesday.
“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage'. Well, let me tell you something. I don't know the Puerto Rican that I know -- or a Puerto Rico, where I'm fr- -- in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honourable people,” he said.
Trump, the former president, was quick to denounce the comment.
The Republican Party presidential candidate, who was holding a rally in Allentown, described Biden’s remarks as “terrible” and likened them to Hillary Clinton's comments calling some of Trump's supporters "deplorables" in 2016. “So, you have to remember Hillary [Clinton]–she said ‘deplorable’ and then she said ‘irredeemable’," Trump said. "‘Garbage’ I think is worse,” he added.
In a damage control exercise, Biden later tried to explain his remarks on X. “Earlier today, I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it," Biden wrote.
"His demonisation of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation,” Biden said.
However, Trump went ahead to make political capital out of it as he had a photo-op with a garbage truck on Wednesday in Wisconsin. "How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honour of Kamala and Joe Biden," he told reporters.
