slot games best Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Roads in ruins, non-functioning street lights, illegal parking were some of the ills plaguing the city were raised in the council meeting of Bhopal Municipal Corporation here on Friday. At the meeting, which was held at ISBT convention Hall, the Congress council members had come carrying placards to draw attention to the pressing issues. Voicing concern over illegal parking in the city, Congress corporator Guddu Chauhan questioned the logic behind issuing tender for parking in New Market even when there is multi-level parking in the area. “Akthar Enterprise runs illegal parking from Mrignayani to Dr Prasad clinic in New Market. When there is a multi level parking in New Market then why BMC was extending the contract of Akthar Enterprise every year. Rs 30 per hour is the premium parking charge. As per tender terms and conditions, parking was allowed for 43 vehicles but taking advantage of his proximity to zonal officials, the agency is running parking of 69 vehicles in premium parking lots, ” stated the Congress corporator. Independent corporator Pappu Vilash said, “Road are in pathetic condition but BMC officials are not doing anything to repair the roads even when they are under guarantee period,” he said. Raju Rathore, corporator ward no-73, said, “Street lights are not functioning in the entire ward-73 of Govindpura area and anti-social elements are taking advantage of the darkness to commit crime.” Mohammed Sarvar said, “Even the potholes on the roads have not been properly filled with C&D waste. Poor quality bitumen is being used in road construction and so gravels easily lose grips and tar washes off. BMC officials should monitor the quality work of road constructions and repairs.” Mayor Malti Rai said, “ It is usually after October 15 that road repairing work is generally taken up on priority. The tenders have been cleared and now BMC will start repairing the roads and ensure proper repairing under the guarantee period.” Censure motion passed against additional commissioner Nidhi Singh Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) in its Council meeting on Friday passed a censure motion against BMC additional commissioner Nidhi Singh, who has been quoted in media blaming Mayor Malti Rai for not signing the files. As per the motion, on November 14,2024 during the 40th board meeting of Bhopal City Link Limited (BCLL) - which runs low floor buses- a file was forwarded to BMC Commissioner office for correction in agenda-5,6,7 and 8. The BMC Commissioner was asked to revert within three days. Reminder for the same was sent on November 21. BMC commissioner sent the file to the Mayor on December 4 but points— 5 and 8 – were not addressed. Even minutes were also not the same which the Mayor had mentioned and it was taken on record. But the BMC additional commissioner Nidhi Singh, who is also BCLL CEO, has been quoted in media that buses were not operated just because the Mayor had not signed the files. At present only 100 buses are being operated instead of 368 low floor buses due to the lackadaisical approach of the BCLL officials. Similarly, Nidhi Singh has been condemned for her ‘behaviour’ toward public representatives (Corporators). Nod for water supply on RAF campus BMC Parishad passed a proposal of supplying Narmada water to RAF campus, Bangarasia. LoP Sabista Zaki objected saying that Bangarasia is not in BMC limits and it is a matter of state government. Congress corporator Pravin Saxena said that individual water connections should also be given in private colonies abolishing the system of bulk connections.When union boss Paddy Crumlin appeared at an international labour conference last month, he entered smiling to the strains of the 1997 hit Tubthumping : “I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down.” Crumlin, who led the merger of the Maritime Union he leads with the scandal-plagued CFMEU in 2018, had reason to grin. Wayne Swan, Paddy Crumlin, Nicola Roxon and Julia Angrisano are among the many superannuation fund directors with labour connections. Credit: Monique Westerman In 2021, the Maritime Super fund that Crumlin chaired had performed so poorly that it handed over investment decisions to another fund, Hostplus, and formally merged with it two years later. But this week Crumlin was back as a super fund director. The CFMEU had picked him as a director of Cbus, the building industry superannuation fund. The CFMEU’s Crumlin pick is just one of a thicket of ties between the unions, Labor and industry superannuation funds that have come to be among the largest and most powerful players in the Australian economy. These funds, which count about 11 million members, are run to profit their members while retail super funds are typically operated by for-profit businesses such as fund managers or banks. And, under the industry model in which unions and employer groups nominate roughly equal numbers of directors to funds, ties between the sector and the labour movement are backed in. But as the $3.9 trillion sector’s coffers have swelled, with big industry funds such as AustralianSuper ($341 billion under management), Cbus ($94 billion) and CareSuper ($53 billion) counting memberships up to 3.4 million people, the level of oversight that model delivers has come under greater scrutiny. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission launched Federal Court proceedings last week against Cbus after it failed to identify and prevent delays in processing death and disability insurance claims that affected 10,000 members, dating back to August 2022 – a failure that Cbus has conceded cost its members about $20 million. CFMEU manufacturing division boss Michael O’Connor is facing separate allegations he misused his position at a small fund, First Super, to bankroll the salary of a union delegate with fund money while his organisation was experiencing financial difficulties. And AustralianSuper, the industry’s largest, could be fined $27 million over its failure to consolidate more than 90,000 members’ accounts, costing them almost $70 million, in another case brought by the corporate regulator. While the funds are variously declining to comment, blaming external contractors, or apologising and saying they have already addressed the issues, superannuation critics smell blood. Liberal senator Andrew Bragg, the opposition assistant spokesman for home ownership, says the sector’s board model, in which union and industry representatives oversee funds rather than typical corporate directors, is no longer fit for purpose. “There is an unmanageable conflict of interest between the interests of unions and workers,” Bragg says. “And there is the cavalcade of Labor politicians, how do they get these positions?” Cbus, for example, is chaired by former Labor treasurer and current party president Wayne Swan. Don Russell, a former senior adviser to Labor prime minister Paul Keating, chairs AustralianSuper. HESTA, an $88 billion fund for the health and community sector, is chaired by Nicola Roxon, a Rudd-Gillard era minister. Bragg says the sector has created a perception that it operates in line with modern governance standards. “It has taken the CFMEU issue to expose that,” he says. Bragg is referring to the litany of allegations of underworld infiltration and corruption revealed in this masthead’s Building Bad series that led the federal government to appoint a barrister to take over the CFMEU. That barrister, Mark Irving, KC, said in August he wanted a “clean sweep” of serving CFMEU representatives from the Cbus board but reappointed one who resigned, Jason O’Mara, alongside Crumlin and a union lawyer, Lucy Weber. There are no allegations against any of those individuals. Super Consumers Australia chief executive Xavier O’Halloran, whose group represents people with superannuation accounts, says the “partisan debate” over Cbus should not be the main focus. “The skills and competence of these boards are really important, and that should be the primary focus,” O’Halloran says. “What we have seen in the UK, the regulator has a role in determining a fit and proper person, to determine who should be on the board. “That’s not something the regulator [APRA] here does. They [unions and industry groups] make their own picks, and we think that could be improved, that there should be greater rigour.” But while O’Halloran would like to see improvements to board regulation, and perhaps the introduction of more independent directors, he also confirms the industry superannuation sector is largely beating its retail competitors. And there is evidence they are delivering on the goals Paul Keating had in mind when he set up the superannuation system: ensuring comfortable retirements and reducing the burden, over time, of the aged pension on federal government coffers. The federal 2023 Intergenerational Report shows government spending on Aged and Service pensions will fall from 2.3 per cent of GDP to 2 per cent by 2063, because of superannuation, even as the population ages. Misha Schubert, chief executive of the lobby group for industry super funds, argues their performance shows the board model is working. “The shared governance model of this type of fund – whether they arose from an industry, company or the public sector – was created with a clear and single purpose,” she wrote earlier this year. “To serve the fund members whose retirement savings they safeguard and grow. “They do so by deeply understanding their members and the workplaces in which their members work – they know exactly whose money it is they are stewarding.” The law governing superannuation funds, Schubert notes, requires directors to comply with high standards of performance and act in members’ best interests. Alongside the labour representatives, big superannuation boards are balanced with employer heavyweights. Cbus’ board employer directors, for example, are all nominated by Master Builders Australia and include that organisation’s chief executive, Denita Wawn. It’s a similar story with AustralianSuper, whose employer directors include AiG chief executive (and former Liberal staffer) Innes Willox, as well as a number of other directors aligned with the employer group that originally represented manufacturing firms. A Cbus spokesman said in a statement that having equal employer and employee representation on its board had ensured its success for 40 years, and it was pleased to welcome the three new directors. “After applying a comprehensive ‘fit and proper persons test’ the Cbus board confirmed the appointment of the three directors who share a determination to generate the strongest, sustainable financial returns for members and deliver the best possible service,” the spokesman said. Loading The fund previously apologised to its members over the claim delays, said it was implementing a compensation process and co-operated with ASIC. Swan, the Cbus chairman, told the Today show last week that many of the criticisms of the fund were “completely inaccurate” and blamed a contracted service provider for the insurance delays but apologised to affected members’ families. “I can assure you, from the minute I became aware of this as chair of the board, I worked with the board to resolve it as quickly as possible,” he said. AustralianSuper has apologised for the multiple accounts issue. “We found this mistake, we reported it, we apologised to impacted members, we paid them back, and we’ve improved our processes to prevent it happening again,” a spokesman said. Michael O’Connor, the CFMEU manufacturing division boss, has voluntarily stood aside while the court case over the alleged misuse of his position is under way and had not responded to comment requests. Unlike some of the union heavyweights, many of the Labor figures on superannuation boards have external pedigree. Russell, of AustralianSuper, for example, is a former ambassador to the United States who has worked at global finance firms including BNY Mellon Asset Management and Sanford C. Bernstein. Hostplus chair Roxon is also an independent director at the property company Dexus. And increasingly, the funds also have independent directors with financial or governance expertise. The 2.4 million-member Australian Retirement Trust, for example, has on its board former top regulator Helen Rowell, and Martin Parkinson, who headed the public service under conservative governments. But that has not satisfied the sector’s critics. Bragg, the Liberal senator, is expected to haul Cbus chairman Swan before the Senate’s economics committee for questions next week. Given the pair’s background, it is unlikely to be a genteel affair. Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter . 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The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned the Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, against the potential consequences of abrogating the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) under the proposed Nigeria Tax Bill, 2024, which is currently before the National Assembly. The Union vowed that it would not stand by and watch the denigration or obliteration of TETFund and would fight to keep the institution, which ASUU described as the backbone of Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions for the last one-and-a-half decades. President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the Union has observed with keen interest the ongoing debate on the review of the tax system in the country. He informed the lawmakers that arising from the tax bill is a clandestine proposal to abrogate the Education Tax. Osodeke particularly pointed out that Section 59(3) of the Nigeria Tax Bill (NTB) 2024 specifically states that only 50 percent of the Development Levy would be made available to TETFund in 2025 and 2026, while the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), and the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) would share the remaining percentages. He said: “ASUU is alarmed by this dangerous and unpatriotic aspect of the proposed new tax regime, to wit: that the Education Tax, called Development Levy, used to bankroll TETFund’s programmes should be ceded to the newly established Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). “ASUU notes with serious concern Section 59(3) of the Nigeria Tax Bill (NTB) 2024, which specifically states that only 50% of the Development Levy would be made available to TETFund in 2025 and 2026, while NITDA, NASENI, and NELFUND would share the remaining percentages. “TETFund will also receive 66.7% in the 2027, 2028, and 2029 years of assessment, but 0% in the 2030 year of assessment and thereafter. “The far-reaching consequence of the new tax system is that from 2030, all funds generated from the Development Levy will be passed to NELFUND. “ASUU finds this development not only worrisome but also inimical to our national development objective because of the potential danger to the survival of TETFund,” he stated. He further stated that TETFund has been the backbone for infrastructural development, postgraduate training, and research capacity building in Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions for the last one-and-a-half decades. “ASUU is compelled by the circumstances to seriously observe that taking any percentage out of the Education Tax (Development Levy) to service another agency not recognised by the TETFund Act 2011 is illegal and should not be allowed to stand. Giving zero allocation of the Development Levy to TETFund from 2030 is a technical way of abrogating the agency. “The purported admonishment that TETFund should seek innovative ways of generating its funds is spurious and ill-advised because, as a creation of an Act, the institution dies without the fund. “Replacing TETFund with NELFUND is comparable to killing a parent to keep a newborn child alive; it is unethical and against the principle of natural justice. “The impact of TETFund on the campus of every tertiary institution in Nigeria is beyond description; abrogating it will set public tertiary education back many years and undermine the modest gains in repositioning Nigerian universities for global recognition and transformative development. “Annual support given to tertiary institutions by TETFund has substantially reduced industrial crises in many tertiary institutions. Renovation of old facilities, provision of new ones, and opportunities for staff development leading to career advancement have doused labour-related agitations on our campuses. “TETFund impacts not only tertiary-level education but also secondary down to kindergarten. It directly and/or indirectly supports the production of quality teachers and different categories of support staff in the entire educational system. The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) borrowed from the Nigerian experience, while some other African countries have recently visited to understudy TETFund. “Nigeria should be improving on the operations and sustainability of the agency, not planning to emasculate or abrogate it,” he stated. The ASUU President added that abrogating the TETFund Act 2011, by design or default, would be a great disservice not just to education but to Nigeria as a nation. “As a result, ASUU is urging the National Assembly, especially the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to do all within their capacity to protect TETFund from being abrogated under the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024.” READ MORE FROM: NIGERIAN TRIBUNEMusk’s DOGE Takes Aim at California High-Speed Rail and Anything Else That Isn’t Nailed DownDickey's Barbecue Pit Celebrates National Lager Day with Legit. Texas. Lager.

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