SHILLONG, April 24: The state’s three autonomous district councils (ADCs) – KHADC, JHADC and GHADC – have decided to write to the state government to give an actual indication of shares they are supposed to receive on royalties from minor and major minerals and taxes from motor vehicles tax.
Talking to reporters after a meeting of the Chief Executive Members (CEMs) of the three ADCs, KHADC CEM Titosstarwell Chyne lamented that the state government had never provided correct estimates on the councils’ shares.
“We just get a lump sum amount. We want the state government to give us an actual indication of how much the ADCs can expect to get each fiscal,” Chyne said.
He urged the government to provide more funds to the ADCs and release the financial assistance received from the Centre on time.
“The councils were not able to implement schemes on time due to delay in the release of funds. The Centre will hold back funds in the future if we fail to submit the utilisation certificates (UCs),” he said.
The KHADC CEM said they are yet to receive funds for untied schemes for 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 from the Centre as they were not able to submit the UCs.
He said they have decided to urge the state government to give the power of issuing Scheduled Tribe (ST) certificates to the ADCs. “The ADCs were the authority to issue the ST certificates in the past. But the state government had taken away this responsibility from us,” Chyne said.
He said they have decided at the meeting that the Deputy Commissioners should issue Permanent Residential Certificates following confirmation by the ADCs.
