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Chapter ñ12 Final Report: <strong>Gudiyattam</strong> <strong>Municipal</strong>ity<br />

ìIWRM is defined as a process that promotes the coordinated development and<br />

management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximize the<br />

resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without<br />

compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystemsî.<br />

Source: Status Report on Integrated Water Resources Management and Water<br />

Efficiency Plans ñ UN water report.<br />

12.3 PROPOSED INTERVENTION AT MUNICIPAL LEVEL<br />

The Proposed <strong>Municipal</strong> intervention is broadly categorized under the heads of:<br />

1. Reforms in Resource Mobilisation<br />

2. Privatisation Initiatives<br />

3. Energy & resource efficiency<br />

4. Computerization and E-governance<br />

5. Accounts and Auditing<br />

6. Institutional Management<br />

7. <strong>Municipal</strong> service delivery<br />

12.3.1 Reforms in Resource Mobilisation<br />

In an environment in which business activity is booming and urban infrastructure<br />

threatens to become a constraint to growth, the municipalities are faced with an<br />

unprecedented need to find substantial resources for development, and an<br />

unprecedented opportunity to raise the same. The various options for enhancement<br />

of <strong>Municipal</strong> revenue based is discussed below:<br />

1. Improving revenue from own sources<br />

2. Improving revenue from user charges<br />

3. Formation of new sustainable revenue bases<br />

12.3.2 Action Plan : Improving revenue from own sources<br />

Strategy options :<br />

i. Property and Profession tax<br />

1. Expanding Property tax and Profession tax base.<br />

Onetime assessment of all unassessed and under assessed properties. This<br />

would increase the property tax revenue base by 20-30%. The project could<br />

be taken up as a door ñto ñdoor survey of all existing properties, with details<br />

on<br />

1. Size & built up area of the property<br />

2. Present use - residential, commercial, industrial or vacant.<br />

3. Number of households, houses, size of families, etc.<br />

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