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Municipal commissioner inspects city roads

Wednesday, 18 December 2013 12:00 administrator
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The Times of India         18.12.2013

Municipal commissioner inspects city roads

KANPUR: Municipal commissioner D K Singh on Tuesday conducted an inspection of several roads in the city and found potholed roads. Singh first inspected roads of Canal Patri and thereafter he witnessed the dilapidated roads in Bhoosatoli locality. He summoned the respective zonal engineers and asked them to submit the estimate of the repair work of the two roads.

Singh also saw the side walls of the road near Elgin and DG College. Looking at the wall paintings made by the college's girl students, he commented that the effort by the students made the city presentable. Thereafter, the municipal commissioner visited power plant of A 2 Z Infrastructure in Bhouti. B N Tiwari, the director of company, apprised him that the plant had produced 6.9 MW of power on Monday against its target of 7 MW per day.

If company would achieve the target, it would earn a sum of Rs 4 crore per annum, Tiwari added.

 

Mysore City Corporation raids meat shops, seals six for not having licence

Wednesday, 18 December 2013 11:53 administrator
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The Times of India         18.12.2013

Mysore City Corporation raids meat shops, seals six for not having licence

MYSORE: The Mysore City Corporation on Tuesday morning raided meat shops that were operating without licence and closed six of them. Though there were a couple of other such shops in the area, the MCC officials found them locked.

Following complaints from the public about unhygienic conditions at the meat stalls in the area, the health and the environment departments launched the drive at 7.30 am. The officials supported by the police raided shops located on Mysore-Yaraganahalli Road and started to attach the property leading to tension. At one point, the shop owners and their staff tried to stall the drive and accused the MCC officials of launching the drive to send a message to the meat stall owners to pay them.

However, the officials led by health officer Dr D G Nagaraj sealed the six meat shops. The officials said the owners were asked to close the shops given that they have not taken permission to sell the meat debunking the claim made by the owners and staff that the drive is sudden and they were not given time. "We'd issued notices to them asking them to close down the shop,'' the officials said.

During the raid it was noticed that the stalls were slaughtering at their premises instead of butchering it at the designated place in Kesare in Narasimharaja Mohalla. Some of them had let their effluents directly into the storm water drains, which, the officials, said is against the rules.

The operation was carried out on Mysore-Yaraganahalli main road, Raghavendra Nagar and near Teresian College. During the drive, the staff questioned area corporator B M Nataraju, who was present on the spot, and accused him of taregtting them to collect money from them. However, the coporator said the officials are conducting the drive against meat shops which don't have licence from the health department of the MCC.

 

Civic bodies to allot 5% in budgets for PMPML

Wednesday, 18 December 2013 11:50 administrator
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The Times of India         18.12.2013

Civic bodies to allot 5% in budgets for PMPML

PUNE: The state government will issue directives to the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations to allocate 5% of their annual budget for the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited, the city bus transport company for augmenting its services.

The government will also appoint a highly competent officer as the chairman and managing director of the transport utility. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan gave this assurance in the ongoing session of the state legislature in reply to city MLC Mohan Joshi.

Pune metropolitan region, which has a population of nearly 60 lakh, faces severe traffic problems, Joshi said. In his demand to the government for allocating 5% of the budgetary amount of the municipal corporations to PMPML, Joshi said Pune, the second largest city in the state, has a vehicular population of over 30 lakh. The public transport system must be strengthened to reduce the traffic problems in the city, he said. Chavan assured the house that the government will issue directions to the municipal corporation.

On the implementation of all-comprehensive rules for the Slum Rehabilitation Authority, state minister for urban development Uday Samant said the government would decide in the next two months. Joshi said the slum rehabilitation authority is facing hurdles in implementing rehabilitation projects in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. The process of making changes in the rules as per the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act is pending since December 2008, Joshi said.

In reply to another question on biodiversity parks in Pune, Samant said the government has received over 13,000 suggestions and objections about the draft plan of the fringe village areas published in February this year. The government is awaiting the report from the town planning officer, Samant said.

The state government would issue directives to the district collectorate for allotting government-owned land for the proposed high capacity mass transit route for Pune city, minister of urban development Uday Samant said. The HCMTR was proposed in the 1987 development plan.

The civic body would require land admeasuring 8.4 lakh sq m for the transit route. However, so far, only 6% of the land has been acquired in the last 25 years, Joshi said. Over Rs 580 crore will have to be spent for land acquisition. The government should grant TDR facility to expedite the land acquisition process. He also demanded that the government start a single-window system for granting TDR to landowners.

 
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