The Hindu 03.12.2010
Computerisation of Corporation office top priority: Mayor
| ‘Steps initiated to check street dog menace in the city' |
First session: The first meeting of the third council of the Thrissur Corporation in progress on Thursday.
Thrissur: Computerisation of the various sections in the Corporation office will be top on the priority of the UDF council, Thrissur Corporation Mayor I. P. Paul has said.
Addressing the first meeting of the UDF-led Corporation council, he said that computerisation was necessary to ensure efficiency and transparency in the Corporation's functioning. “Most of the computers installed in 2000 by the then UDF council are not functioning. They are outdated. No steps were taken during the last five years to repair or update them,” he said.
The council entrusted the monitoring committee, led by Deputy Mayor Subi Babu, with the task of taking appropriate steps.
Steps had already been initiated to check the street dog menace in the city, the Mayor said.
The council asked the public works committee to inquire into the alleged shortcomings in the road repair works undertaken by the previous council.
Many UDF councillors alleged that the road works, including macadam tar topping of the Swaraj Round and the link roads, were done without proper plan or vision. Congress councillor Rajan Pallan said that the unscientific road repair works had left the city in a chaotic state.
“Even a brief spell of rain will flood the arterial Swaraj Round and all the low-lying roads. The tar topping had been done without removing the encroachments. There is no provision for the rainwater to flow into the drains. Crores of rupees had been wasted on unscientific city plan,” he alleged.
The council passed a resolution to repair six remaining major roads in the city during the second stage of the Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project.
As many of the Corporation officials were not present while discussing issues related to their respective departments, the Mayor instructed the Secretary to ensure the presence of officials in the coming council meetings.
Opposition leader P.A. Purushothaman raised the issue of poor waste management in the city.
