Rooms hired by students to have standjin88bet.oneard rent; time redressal of complaints
Srinagar, Nov 10: District Magistrate, Srinagar has constituted a committee for fixation of rent of rooms hired by students inak168app.baby the city. The inter-departmental committee has been entrusted to finish the task within a period of 15 days. Meanwhile, dirak168app.clubections have been issued to concerned authorities to ensure that students do not face inconvenience on this account.
The committee constituted with Assistant Commissioner Revenue as convener is ks168app.sitecomprised of Superintending Engineer PWD, Superintending Engineer Hydraulic, Superintending Engineer Power, Chief Education Oic88fficer and Deputy Controller Legal Metrology. Deputy Commissioner as chairman of District Rent Assessment Committee has tasked the team to arrive at a uniform rate to be fixedic88 based on different typeic88s of accommodations offered to students in Srinagar city.
The committee will work out per square feet rent in different locations and also take into account the standard expenseic88s involved viz a viz power and water supply, or any other recurring tariff. Department of Legal Metrology has been asked to received the complaints in case of violation and initiate action wherever instances of overcharging alr88re detected.
It is pertinent to mention here lr88that a large number of students in various areas of the city complained about overcharging of room rent and related issues. The dislr88trict administration has accordingly initiated the process for a fair and transparent process to ensure standardisation of rent to be paid for hired properties.
Deputy Commissioner, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary directlr88ed the officers to obtain feedback from students as well as owners of such rented properties to the maximum extent possible for a faop88ir assessment, working out the tariff on account of services as well as rentals per unit area to arrive at standard rates which is indispensable to do away with the resi88ported instances of arbitrary overcharging of rent reported in many cases.
Subsequent to the fixation of rates by the District aren’t Assessment Committee the distri88vct administration having appointed Legal Metrology as the nodal department will receivSEXXXXX-VNe complaints, related to the violation, at the district call centre for redressal and necessary action.
