The Hindu 07.08.2011
11 panels told to submit detailed reports for Coimbatore city expansion by August 27
The 11 committees the Coimbatore Corporation had formed
to study the city expansion project will go into details and submit a
fresh, in-depth report on August 27.
Sources in the
civic body said after the committees submitted their initial findings on
Saturday, they were asked to do a fresh, scientific study in such a
manner that would help in the preparation of a detailed project report
to take up works in the 11 local bodies to be integrated with the
Corporation.
The sources that the committee on solid
waste management would, for example, study the waste generated in a ward
of a local body and scale it up for the entire local body. Though this
might not be accurate, it would present a near approximate picture of
the waste generated in the local body.
The committee
formed to study water supply would study how many borewells needed to be
dug, the water availability in each of the 11 local bodies and suggest
what needed to be done to ensure that residents of the 11 local bodies
also got 135 litres a person a day.
The sources also
said that the committee on tax collection would study the tax potential
in the 11 local bodies, the number of tax collections centres needed to
be established, etc.
The committee on street lights
had identified that the city would have another 28,000-odd street lights
if the 11 local bodies were to be integrated.
Now
they would study what needed to be done to bring them under the
Corporation’s power conservation programme and how many energy savers
were needed.
In the run-up to the city expansion, the
Corporation is also toying with the idea of expanding its underground
drainage network.
This would be in addition to the
583 km sewerage network the Corporation is laying at present for Rs. 377
crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
The
sources said that the plan was to lay another 125 km sewerage network
at areas in the city that had been excluded from the present project and
the 11 local bodies. The Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board had
been tasked with studying the UGD needs of the 11 local bodies.
The sources said the Corporation would co-ordinate with the 11 local bodies and the TWAD Board in implementing the project.
