Strange rules of municipal corporation Ludhiana Sir, Many a times I have got an opportunity to visit the august office of the Municipal Corporation Ludhiana. I have never seen them dedicated to the work and they use their discretion to harass the public and inculcate the dharma of illegal practices. First of all they are hardly available after lunch. No one knows their public dealing hours and neither these are displayed anywhere. If they are officially allowed to be in field after the lunch break, then there should not be any illegal construction activity and encroachments in the city. All those broken roads, choked sewers and garbage on the roads must be in the notice of MCL employees who are in the field during the working hours. I happened to visit the Zone D Office of Municipal Corporation Ludhiana, Once for depositing House tax and second time for depositing Sewer and water charges. Since it is well known that it is always risky to deposit cash with the MCL, since the past performance shows they often keep the money with them and do not deposit the cash on daily basis. Moreover its a worldwide practice to do cashless transactions. If every transaction is routed through bank, it gets accounted for. But all these times not only me, but many people willing to deposit cheques were compelled to get " Good for Payment" endorsement duly signed and stamped by Bank Managers on the reverse of the cheque purported to be deposited with the MCL. Its not obligatory for the banks to give this guarantee that every cheque deposited is good for payment .Ludhiana is the financial capital of the North and more than 10000 cheques worth crores of rupees are cleared through banks daily. If every institution asks everyone to get this endorsement signed by the bank, the very purpose of this instrument (cheque) will get defeated. This practice generates harassment to the public and precious time is wasted in running to banks and coming back to MCL office .And by 1 PM they stop work. I do not know if they apply the same rule to the cheques issued by themselves. I must remind here , I met a senior citizen, who wanted to deposit about Rs.50,000 in advance against his future water and sewerage charges as he was going abroad for a couple of years, he was bluntly told , there is no such provision. I suggest the worthy Officers of MCL should devise some method so that the citizens could deposit their dues without coming to MCL Office. The Technology has advanced and these charges can be deposited online through alternate channels like internet, ATM or Credit card. This will minimize the chances of bungling and will also increase the revenue of the MCL. The whole of world and the nation is progressing . Will the MCL also rise and serve the citizens in a transparent and judicious way.