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Clean, green city by 2030

Thursday, 30 March 2017 10:32 administrator

The Hindu 30.03.2017

Clean, green city by 2030

Deputy Mayor Varghese Kandamkulathy presenting the Corporation Budget.

Rs. 100 crore for waste management in Thrissur Corporation Budget

The burning issue of waste management in the city topped the priority list of the Thrissur Corporation Budget presented on Wednesday.

‘Poverty-free, zero-waste, green and safe city by 2030’ was the slogan of the budget presented by Deputy Mayor Varghese Kandamkulathy. Mayor Ajitha Jayarajan presided over.

An amount of Rs. 100 crore was earmarked for waste management. Another Rs. 5 crore will be earmarked for making the city green.

Sports complex at Lalur

A sports complex at Lalur, which was the waste dump of the city, has found place in the budget. A decision in this regard had already been taken after discussions with the government recently.

A touch screen facility will be installed at the Corporation office to know the progress of the applications and complaints. Birth and death registrations will go online from May 1.

Paying of taxes will go online from October. A CCTV network will be installed at corporation offices.

While drinking water projects got Rs. 45 crore, renovation of bus stands received Rs. 66 crore. An amount of Rs. 10 crore is earmarked for developing Sakthan Nagar and Rs. 50 lakh for IT-based industries.

Various junctions, including Ikkanda Warrier, Aswani, Patturaikkal and Chembukkavu, will be developed. Flyovers will be constructed at Punkunnam, Peringavu, Ikkanda Warrier Junction, Fatima Nagar Junction, and Aswani Junction.

Subways envisaged

Subways will be constructed near Mission Hospital, Mother Hospital, Metro Hospital, and Thekke Gopura Nada. Foot overbridges will be built at Sakthan bus stand, North bus stand, St. Thomas College Road, and railway station road.

A new road will be constructed from Puzhakkal Sobha City to Mannuthy NH 47 Junction.

The overbridge at Divanji Corner will be completed in six months. There is a project for new bund road from Vanchikulam to Chettupuzha Bridge.

M.G. Road and Sankarayyar Road will be widened and parking facilities will be improved.

Projects will be planned to attract tourists. There will be schemes for the development of marginalised communities.

Thrust on waste management, infrastructure

Saturday, 25 March 2017 07:49 administrator

The Hindu 25.03.2017

Thrust on waste management, infrastructure

Deputy Mayor Rakhi Ravikumar presenting the Corporation budget on Friday; (right) BJP councillors returning the red bags distributed along with the budget document and asking for black ones instead at the council hall.C. Ratheesh Kumar

City Corporation presents Rs. 988.96-crore budget for 2017-18; My City, Beautiful City project gets an outlay of Rs. 20 crore

With liberal quotes of O.N.V. Kurup’s poetry and a spell of magic in the surplus figures, Deputy Mayor Rakhi Ravikumar presented the city Corporation’s Rs. 988.96-crore budget for the financial year 2017-18. But the revised budget estimates for the previous year might not be comfortable reading for the Corporation authorities as the total expenditure stands at Rs. 486.2 crore, just about one-third of the total outlay of Rs. 1,248.36.

That perhaps explains this year’s comparatively reduced outlay, which has fallen below Rs. 1,000 crore for the first time in recent years. The surplus in the previous year’s revised budget is a hefty Rs. 239.8 crore, while this year it is Rs. 64.19 crore.

The Corporation’s budget looks partly like a rewind of the budgets from previous years, though some level of freshness and even adventure, in the form of an amusement park at Vilappilsala, is evident. Waste management and infrastructure continues to be the focus of the budget this year too.

The My City, Beautiful City project gets an outlay of Rs. 20 crore. Keeping in mind the local body’s current blanket ban on plastic bags and criticism from various quarters on the lack of enough materials to replace them, the budget has proposed the setting up of a manufacturing unit of cloth and paper bags at a cost of Rs. 2.5 crore, with the prospect of employing 2,000 people.

As a first step towards completely shifting to LED street lighting, Rs. 10 crore has been set aside for solar powered-LED lights along the Kazhakuttam-Kovalam bypass. LED lights will be used for all new street light replacements in the current year. For the development of model ring roads connecting the Highways, an amount of Rs. 8 crore has been allocated. Ward resource centres get an allocation of Rs. 30 crore. For the upgrading of sewerage networks, Rs. 5 crore has been set aside.

A modern ‘city hall’ will be set up on the Corporation’s land at Jagathy, at a cost of Rs. 10 crore. Convention centres will come up at Vazhayila and Kadakampally at a total cost of Rs. 20 crore.

For mini drinking water projects, Rs. 20 crore has been allocated. The slaughterhouse at Kunnukuzhy, which has remained closed for the past three years, is set for a revival at a cost of Rs. 15 crore.

The existing crematoriums at Kazhakuttam and Kanjirampara will be renovated at a cost of Rs. 2 crore. Corporation’s hospitals will be renovated at a cost of Rs. 3 crore.

The budget has set aside Rs. 75 lakh for buying bicycles for girl students of classes 8 and 9 in the coastal regions and in the Scheduled Caste regions. The ‘Ananthapuri medicals’ project at a cost of Rs. 20 lakh is aimed at making accessible medicines at affordable cost.

Novelties galore in corporation Budget

Friday, 24 March 2017 09:49 administrator

The Hindu 24.03.2017

Novelties galore in corporation Budget

She Lodge proposal goes a long way in ensuring women’s safety

The Kozhikode Municipal Corporation proposes to construct a ‘She Lodge’ near the railway station for the convenience of travelling women. Presenting the Budget for the year 2017-18, Deputy Mayor Meera Darshak said Rs. 50 lakh had been set aside for the project, which will come up on the corporation land.

She Lodge is among the many novelties in the Budget. Rs. 25 lakh has been earmarked for a solar power plant at the corporation office. Rs. 1 crore has been set aside for the Kidson Corner renovation project, which includes a garden, multi-level parking, and a commercial complex.

The Budget proposes to convert the Corporation Health Dispensary at West Hill into a health complex with Ayurvedic, Homoeopathic, and Allopathic treatment available under one roof. The complex will also have a mini-library and a garden. Rs. 1 crore has been set apart for the project.

The Bachelor’s Quarters at Vellayil will be demolished to construct a new one along with a commercial complex.

The corporation is also planning projects under Kudumbasree CDS, including a micro-emerging fund, which will help members earn livelihood, besides encouraging new entrepreneurs. Rs. 1 lakh has been earmarked for supply of nutrition kits to HIV positive people under the Kudumbasree’s special neighbourhood groups.

The Budget proposes ‘Abhayam’, a new housing scheme, to provide financial help of Rs. 2.5 lakh to five homeless people in every ward. Rs. 9.37 crore has been set aside for the project.

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