Civic employees to get lessons in work skill development
Friday, 03 January 2014 11:20
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The Times of India 03.01.2014 Civic employees to get lessons in work skill development
NASHIK: The employees of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) will get lessons on developing their work skills and enhance efficiency during a two-day training workshop starting from January 16.
The NMC has appointed the Bangalore-based Urban Development Research Institute for the workshop.
"Such training workshops are part of our policy for our employees. The training is required as many a time, the employees are transferred to other departments. This workshop is meant for the administrative, health, town planning, tax, accounts departments among others. We are yet to finalize the venue for the workshop," said an NMC official.
There are about 6,000 employees in various departments across all six divisions of the NMC- Nashik East, Nashik West, Satpur, Panchavati, Cidco and Nashik Road. Around 1,000 posts are lying vacant in many departments.
"As there is already shortage of manpower in the municipal corporation, our focus is on improving the skills and efficiency of our employees. We are also planning to fill up the vacant posts," the official said.
The civic body has spent around 30% of the money allocated in the budget on administrative work, so far. There has been no recruitment in the NMC for 10 years now. The growth rate of the city has been progressive, which has put more burden on the health, water supply and drainage departments, the official said.
Municipal finance board chairman stresses on energy conservation through LED lights
Friday, 03 January 2014 10:27
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The Times of India 03.01.2014 Municipal finance board chairman stresses on energy conservation through LED lights
VADODARA: Gujarat Municipal Finance Board (GMFB) chairman Vijah Rupani stressed on the need to reduce the energy bills of civic bodies. Rupani began his round of visiting municipal corporations and holding meetings with municipality functionaries from Vadodara on Wednesday.
At a meeting of Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) functionaries, Rupani suggested that civic bodies should switch over to LED fittings from conventional streetlight sources. He said that LED lighting involved lower energy consumption and was also low on maintenance.
Rupani also asked the civic bodies to ensure employment generation through the Ummeed programme of the state government. He also suggested that pay and use toilet blocks should be encouraged. Rupani suggested that the plans of the VMC to spruce up its gardens and ponds should be taken up as special projects and separate grants should be sought.
According to Rupani, the state government had given grants to the tune of Rs 5,500 crore to municipal corporations in the state. He added that the budget of the GMFB was around Rs 110 crore at one point of time, but this had gone up to Rs 5,500 crore now.
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Vegetables at Doorstep Soon
Thursday, 02 January 2014 12:03
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The New Indian Express 02.01.2014
Vegetables at Doorstep Soon
If consumers find purchasing vegetables a big pain in the neck or
just do not have the time to visit market or skills to pick the
freshest vegetables from crowded market places, here is some good news
to them. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, in
coordination with the state marketing department, will launch an
initiative, ‘Manakuragayalu’, to provide vegetables at people’s doorstep
in about 100 locations in the twin cities. The fresh vegetables
on wheels will involve unemployed youth forming into self help groups
and sell fresh vegetables grown by farmers and farming entrepreneurs. The
directorate of marketing has identified as many as 100 locations to
sell fresh vegetables at citizens’ doorstep. The department will act a
facilitator between farmers and consumers as direct marketing of
vegetable produce will eliminate middlemen and makes the farmer directly
responsible for selling his/her produce through SHGs who, in turn, will
sell to the consumers at their doorstep. Chief executive officer
(CEO), Rythu Bazaar, MK Singh told Express that the initiative would
have three benefits. Farmers in the cluster of Rangareddy and Medak
districts will supply freshly harvested vegetables to unemployed youth
(SHGs), who collect vegetables from farms and carry them to the
designated mobile vegetable sales outlets listed out by the department
and sell the vegetables in retail which will be cheaper than the market
price. ‘’We are in the process of finalising the details with the
GHMC shortly and the initiative will be launched on Ugadi’’ Singh
added. The consumers will get quality of vegetables at cheaper
rates. The prices will be a little higher than those at Rythu Bazaars
but the vegetables can be bought at one’s doorstep, he added. The
GHMC will provide bank linkage to the SHGs for purchasing vehicles by
providing 50 percent loan subsidy and will identify 100 groups for
selling vegetables, additional commissioner (UCD) D.Jayaraj Kennedy
said. GHMC officials said that the dreams of farmers and
unemployed youth would come true by fetching them better rate and
offering lower prices to consumers, thus avoiding exploitation by
middlemen. Chief secretary PK Mohanty is keen on the scheme and
wants the GHMC and marketing department to start the process at the
earliest. The two held a meeting at the HGHMC’s head office near Tank
Bund on Tuesday to discuss the nitty-gritty of the operations.
Civic body plans sports policy
Saturday, 28 December 2013 00:00
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The Times of India 28.12.2013 Civic body plans sports policy
NASHIK: Mayor Yatin Wagh called a meeting of the city's sports associations on Friday, inviting suggestions from them for a proposed sports policy by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC).
Wagh said, "The objective in preparing a sports policy is to promote sports in the city. Suggestions made by the associations about infrastructure facilities, financial assistance, sports festivals, appointment of dieticians for players etc., will be incorporated in the proposed policy. Written suggestions by sports enthusiasts will also be accepted."
Rajendra Satpurkar a member of the Body Building Association said, "The NMC must conduct sports competitions at the district-level to promote local sportspersons. The gymnasiums are constructed by the NMC and adequate equipment is provided to these gymnasiums, however they are not maintained properly. The management of these gymnasiums should therefore be given to sports associations."
Arjun Tile, an office-bearer of the National Congress Party ( NCP) said, "There is a large number of gardens, but playgrounds are less. So, the NMC must focus on developing more playgrounds and set up a sports development committee at prabhag-level."
Santosh Mandale, an office-bearer of a sports associations said, "There is a need for proper training for players by the municipal corporation. The NMC must adopt the players who shine at the state, national and international levels."
Deepak Sonawane of the Maharashtra Body Building Association said, "Apart from the training, a nutritious diet for the players is also needed. So a special dietician must be appointed by the civic body to provide dietary tips to players."
Prashant Bhabad of the Kabaddi association said that a special committee of sports experts should be set up to chalk out the sports policy of the municipal corporation. He added that a provision of funds should be made in the NMC's budget.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) is planning to come out with a sports policy to promote sports in the city.
The city mayor Yatin Wagh, who had called the meeting of sports associations on Friday said that the suggestions made by them would be incorporated in the proposed policy.
Wagh said, "The objective in preparing sports policy is to promote sports in the city. The suggestions made by the associations like infrastructure facilities, financial assistance, organizing sports festivals, appointment of dietician for players etc would be incorporated in the proposed policy. Moreover, the written suggestions by sports-lovers will also be accepted."
Earlier, while discussing the issue, Rajendra Satpurkar of the body building association said, "NMC must conduct various sports competitions at district-level to promote sportspersons. Moreover, the gymnasiums are constructed by the NMC and adequate equipments are also provided to gymnasiums, but they are not maintained properly. Hence, management of these gymnasiums be given to sports associations so that they will be maintained properly."
Arjun Tile, an office-bearer of the National Congress Party (NCP) said, "There are large numbers of gardens in the city, but playgrounds are very less. Hence, the NMC must focus on developing more playgrounds and set up sports development committee at prabhag-level.
Santosh Mandale, an office-bearer of one of the sports associations said, "There is need to create players and proper training be imported to them by the municipal corporation. Moreover, the NMC must adopt the players who shine at state, national and international levels."
Deepak Sonawane of Maharashtra Body Building Association said, "Apart from training, nutritious diet is also needed to players. Hence, special dietician be appointed by the municipal corporation to provide dietary tips to players.
Prashant Bhabad of Kabaddi association said suggested setting up special committee of sport experts to chalk out the sports policy of the municipal corporation and the provision of funds be made in the budget of NMC.
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