The Hindu 26.04.2013
Amma Unavagam in all 100 wards soon
Act against those pasting posters, drawing on walls: Mayor
The Coimbatore Corporation will soon open Amma Unavagam,
the subsidised canteen from the State government, in all the 100 wards
of the Coimbatore Corporation. It will also initiate steps to license
dogs, pound stray cattle on streets, exterminate pigs from the city and
curb illegal hoarding and graffiti.
At the Thursday’s
Council meeting, Mayor S.M. Velusamy asked officials to give time for
those rearing pigs to move out of the city and after the deadline
impound and auction the animals. His announcement came in deference to
councillors’ demands.
He then instructed Town
Planning Officer Varadharajan to remove illegal hoardings and act
against those pasting posters, erecting hoardings and drawing on walls.
To the city police, he said they could approach the Corporation if they
wanted traffic umbrellas and not depend on sponsors, who were keen on
displaying their brands.
Mr. Velusamy also asked
Commissioner G. Latha to form a team of officials to work out ways to
remove plastic materials from drains and other places in the city. This
was after Ward 61 councillor S.M. Samy spoke of plastic materials
choking drains and that leading to flooding of streets.
“The
Corporation should embark on an anti-plastics campaign as it had done a
few years ago. This will help keep the drains clean before monsoon and
prevent flooding.”
Finance and Taxation Committee
Chairman R. Prabhakaran joined him saying that if the civic body were to
focus on cleaning drains, it should start with culverts because that
was where the plastics were gathered.
After the
councillors complained of improper closing of roads where the
underground drainage and storm water drain works were taken up, he said
that engineers in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
wing should immediately close the pits and ensure that no water
stagnated at those places.
Soon thereafter, the
Council passed a resolution to demand a new road-overbridge between
Coimbatore and Irugur railway junctions, supply drinking water to those
areas where water pressure was less, construct additional classrooms at
the school in Ward 62, and attempt biogas generation from bio-waste.
