The Hindu 28.08.2012
Corporation to supply water 24×7 on its own
MCC may tap World Bank, State Government for funds
The council of Mangalore City Corporation at its meeting
on Monday approved the civic body’s proposal of going for
round-the-clock water supply in its wards on its own.
The
council dropped an earlier proposal of entrusting the round-the-clock
water supply to a private agency by asking it to invest funds required
for the supply.
The House decided that loans and
internal accruals would be the main sources of funding for the
corporation. It resolved that water should be supplied round-the-clock
without hiking the tariff. The council decided that the corporation
should maintain the infrastructure.
Corporation
commissioner Harish Kumar K. told the council that Hubli-Dharwad
Municipal Corporation had adopted round-the-clock water supply in eight
wards on a pilot basis by availing loan from the World Bank and from
grants from the State Government. It was now planning to extend the same
to all its wards. The same model could be adopted in Mangalore.
Mangalore City Corporation would be able to repay Rs. 5 crore to Rs. 6
crore annually as loan instalment from its own fund.
Dispensaries
The
council agreed to allow Karnataka Ayurveda Medical College here to
manage the free dispensaries of the corporation at Urwa Market and Bejai
as the civic body had been facing dearth of doctors. It agreed to allow
Srinivas Institute of Medical and Research Centre, Mukka, to provide
medical services at the city family welfare centre of the corporation in
Kuloor. Those institutes would have to enter into an agreement with the
corporation and agree to certain conditions to be laid. Those
institutes could treat outpatients and should purchase medicines on
their own. If additional treatment was required, those institutes would
have to admit the outpatients.
An agenda note tabled
at the meeting said that of the 10 health centres of the corporation
four have been handed over to private medical institutes for their
management.The council approved the draft bylaw of the corporation for plastic waste (management and handling).
Road widening
The
House approved a proposal to widen four narrow roads in the city. They
are Ganapathi High School Road; Sharavu Mahaganathi Temple Road from
Hotel Vimalesh Junction to Karnad Sadashiva Rao Road; Panje Mangesh Rao
Road and Naguri to Mangalore Central Railway Station Road.
The
council resolved that 22.31 cents of land from eight property owners on
Kadri Kambala Road required to widen the road should be either acquired
or taken possession of by giving owners TDR (transferable development
rights). The council took the decision as the property owners had
objected to part with the land.
Mayor Gulzaar Banu presided over the meeting.
