While seeking to put at rest the controversy over the orders issued to the ward administrative secretaries to supervise and ensure proper remittance of the user fee collected from public toilets (pay and use) within the city, Commissioner of Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) Nishant Kumar issued revised orders on Wednesday, making the public health workers responsible for collection of the fee, ward administrative secretaries responsible for supervising the collection, and revenue inspectors responsible for timely remittance of the fee in the treasury accounts.
There was a furore over the order issued by the GMC Assistant Commissioner recently, asking the ward administrative secretaries to supervise the cleanliness and collection of the user fee in the three locations where public toilets exist.
President of the village/ward secretariat employees’ federation M.D. Jani Pasha said in a statement that the orders meant that even women secretaries should be physically present at the public toilets till 10 p.m. as per the shift system.
