The Times of India 25.07.2014
Councillors seek expansion of Salem corporation limits
SALEM:
All councillors, including deputy mayor M Natesan, appealed to the
Salem City Municipal Corporation mayor to expand corporation limits
based on population as well as to develop the city further. “There are
60 wards in the corporation and they have to be bifurcated based on
population density as many small wards have more population than the
bigger wards. So we request the mayor to send a detailed proposal to the
state government to break the bigger wards,” Natesan said. Mayor S
Soundappan who heard the councillors’ request said that he would send a
detailed proposal seeking government’s nod in this issue.
All councillors, including deputy mayor M Natesan, appealed to the
Salem City Municipal Corporation mayor to expand corporation limits
based on population as well as to develop the city further. “There are
60 wards in the corporation and they have to be bifurcated based on
population density as many small wards have more population than the
bigger wards. So we request the mayor to send a detailed proposal to the
state government to break the bigger wards,” Natesan said. Mayor S
Soundappan who heard the councillors’ request said that he would send a
detailed proposal seeking government’s nod in this issue.
SCMC’s monthly meeting was held at hanging garden in the city on
Thursday. Mayor Soundappan headed the meeting while corporation
commissioner K R Selvaraj welcomed the gathering. Zonal presidents T
Thiyagarajan (Suramangalam), K Madeshwaran (Hasthampatti), V Jayaprakash
(Ammapet) and M Shanmugam (Kondalampatti) accused officials of not
informing zonal presidents while conducting mass cleaning drives in the
wards. “The officials have been conducting meetings on their own. They
do not discuss anything with zonal presidents or the ward councillors
concerned. They do not inform us about any mass cleaning programme,”
they said. Commissioner Selvaraj said that he would ask all officials to
keep councillors and zonal presidents informed in future.
Thursday. Mayor Soundappan headed the meeting while corporation
commissioner K R Selvaraj welcomed the gathering. Zonal presidents T
Thiyagarajan (Suramangalam), K Madeshwaran (Hasthampatti), V Jayaprakash
(Ammapet) and M Shanmugam (Kondalampatti) accused officials of not
informing zonal presidents while conducting mass cleaning drives in the
wards. “The officials have been conducting meetings on their own. They
do not discuss anything with zonal presidents or the ward councillors
concerned. They do not inform us about any mass cleaning programme,”
they said. Commissioner Selvaraj said that he would ask all officials to
keep councillors and zonal presidents informed in future.
“Most SCMC officials put on record that cleaning programme has been
carried out without actually doing anything. So we want to check each
record related to that scheme,” they said the commissioner agreed to
produce the records.
Opposition party leader Buvaneswari Murali
complained of water logging and the mayor assured of taking action.
Hasthampatti zonal president Matheswaran sought new roads to be built in
areas where underground drainage work have been carried out. In the
meeting the mayor expressed hope of developing Salem city further with
the help of grants from the central as well as state government.
