MC apathetic towards revenue generation

Amritsar | Friday | 21st July, 2017

Summary:

Sher Singh, Superintendent, Advertisements, MC, said, “The city has a huge potential of revenue generation through advertisements. The Municipal Corporation (MC) collects a revenue of more than Rs 8 crore annually from 200 advertisement unipoles in the city. After the successful bid of 200 unipoles, the advertisement wing searched 50 more locations to instal the unipoles to increase the revenue. After subletting the 200 unipoles in 2015, the MC has started getting Rs 8 crore per annum as revenue. Earlier, the revenue from the advertisement wing was in lakhs..