Govt deprived of revenues
The licence of no non-motorised vehicles in the Dhaka city has not been renewed since 2011 when the erstwhile Dhaka City Corporation was split into two parts.
Procedural complexities have been blamed for this, which deprived both the city corporations of the yearly revenues from the sector.Both the Dhaka NorthCity Corporation and the Dhaka South City Corporation have failed to collect any revenue form this sector though they had a target to collect Tk 2 crore in this fiscal year.
The revenue officials of two city corporations said they could not collect revenue from this sector in the last fiscal year too.
As part of the ongoing digitisation in the country, the city corporations initiated providing digital number plate for the non-motor vehicles for easy identification of the non-registered vehicles including rickshaws.
The Dhaka South City Corporation was involved in updating the list of non-motor vehicles and the list was sent to the Dhaka North City Corporation on November 14 last year.
‘The list was prepared in November last year. So, it will take time to complete other tasks including preparing number plates under a digital programme,’ said chief revenue officer of the Dhaka North City Corporation M Golam Mustafa Khan.
According to the list, over 70 thousand rickshaws are to be renewed under the Dhaka South City Corporation while over 26,800 rickshaws under the Dhaka North City Corporation.
Apart from this, a total of 1969 non-motor vans are to be renewed under the DNCC.
The DSCC in 2012-2013 fiscal year targeted to collect Tk 1.5 crore while the DNCC targeted Tk 50 lakh as revenues from the sector.
‘But no revenue was collected form this sector in the last two fiscal years,’ DSCC chief revenue officer Tajul Islam Prodhan has told New Age.
The chief revenue officers said the process of preparing the number plate and relevant registration papers was going on.
The office of chief store officer in the DSCC and DNCC were preparing the number plates.
‘For this, the tender process is also going on,’ Tajul Islam Prodhan said.
About digitisation of the number plates, he said the suppliers would supply a machine capable of identifying the licence and also the name of the city corporation which provides the licence.
‘It will also identify the rickshaws without registration,’ Tajul Islam said.
They said the revenue would be collected soon after the process was completed, they said.
‘All the revenue would be collected,’ said Golam Mustafa Khan.
According to the government instruction, providing new licence for rickshaw and van has been stopped.
The city corporation provided licence to rickshaws and vans in 1986-1987 fiscal year for the last time.
The licences were provided to those rickshaws and vans which were present at the National Parade Square at that time.
-With New Age input
