The Hindu 19.02.2013
GVMC moves to clean up dump yard
The GVMC has initiated action to clean up the nearly
80-acre dump yard at Kapuluppada where municipal garbage is being dumped
for nearly 17 years now.
It would call for tenders
offering an estimated 15-lakh tons of garbage. Price per ton would be
decided and some six months would be given to lift the quantity,
Municipal Commissioner M.V. Satyanarayana said briefing reporters about
the decisions taken by B. Sam Bob, Special Officer of the GVMC and
Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development,
during his visit last week.
The Special Officer also
approved a move to appoint a private agency to do the ground work
identifying vacant land in the city for levy of vacant land tax.
Once the work was done, GVMC officials would inspect and take a decision on levying the tax.
Mr.
Satyanarayana said around 50,000 plots needed to be identified. In the
budget Rs.170 crore was being projected as income from VLT but in
reality only Rs.5 crore was being realised.
Survey of properties
The
Special Officer also approved survey of GVMC properties, lands and
those allotted by the District Collector under the supervision of a
retired assistant director of Survey and Land Records. Six surveyors
would assist him.
“The entire details will be digitised,” the Commissioner said.
The
corporation plans to take up seven-foot footpaths on 52-km stretch in
public-private partnership mode. The agency would be allowed to sell
advertisement space on the hoardings along the footpaths.
Mr.
Satyanarayana said 16 of the 26 kalyanamantapams that had been issued
closure notices for lack of fire safety ordered equipment.
Final action would be taken by the month-end.
On
a complaint received at the grievances on Monday, he ordered that a
kalyanamantapam being run unauthorised on residential premises at
Kakaninagar in Ward 67 be closed immediately.
It
was one of the decisions taken by GVMC Special Officer B. Sam Bob
during his visit to the city last week, says Municipal Commissioner.