Capital Expenditure
Annually Recurrent Expenditure
Total Expenditure
Revenue
SUMMARY
Since 1954-55 (Actual)
1963-64 (Estimated)
$254,211,469
$71,809,700
57,499,349
14,313,700
$311,710,818
$86,123,400
$ 76,636,500
$20,630,000
CHAPTER IX
ORGANIZATION AND STAFF OF THE
RESETTLEMENT DEPARTMENT
90. The Resettlement Department operates under the general direction of the Urban Council two of whose Select Committees are concerned with resettlement matters. They are the Resettlement and Clearance (Policy) Select Committee which deals with general matters of policy and the Resettlement Estates and Areas Select Committee (renamed Resettlement (Management) Committee w.e.f. 1.4.63) which concerns itself with the more detailed aspects of administration and control of the multi-storey resettlement estates and cottage resettlement areas. Memberships of these two Select Committees for the period from 1st April, 1962, to 31st March, 1963, are attached as Appendix A at the end of this Chapter.
91. The work of the department can be summed up under three heads; the planning, maintenance and administration of resettlement accommodation which includes the multi-storey estates and the cottage resettlement areas; the clearance into resettlement accommodation of squatters occupying sites required for development; and the prevention of new squatter structures. To carry out these duties the department had on 31st March, 1963, a total establishment of 12 administrative, executive and resettlement officers and 2,774 technical, clerical, field and junior staff. The Headquarters located at Pui Ching Road, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, comprises the senior staff, who are concerned with Policy, the supervisory staff administering the Estates and Areas including Factories, and the Operations Staff, who are responsible for clearance operations. There is also a Works Section which, since its inception in 1959, has been responsible for maintenance work in resettlement estates, as well as all construction and maintenance work in cottage areas and the preparation of plans for cultivation clearances. This Section is headed
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