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NCP puts off decision on merger of 7 villages in PMC jurisdiction

Saturday, 24 August 2013 07:49 administrator
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The Indian Express            24.08.2013

NCP puts off decision on merger of 7 villages in PMC jurisdiction

Ruling NCP in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to postpone by a month the decision on the proposal seeking merger of seven more villages in the civic jurisdiction. This comes in the wake of Congress joining hands with the MNS in opposing the proposal.

After managing to get approval in the legal committee, the proposal came up for discussion in the general body meeting before it could be forwarded to the state governmet for final approval. As per the proposal, the villages to be included in civic jurisdiction are Nandoshi, Vadgaonsheri, Mangdewadi, Bhilarewadi, Gujar Nimbalkarwadi, Jambhulwadi and Kolewadi. These are in addition to the 28 villages that were given consent by the the civic body recently.

NCP leader Subhash Jagtap said the proposal to include more villages in PMC limits is to stop the rampant ongoing illegal construction in these villages.

However, Congress leader Arvind Shinde objected by saying that the civic body should consider the adverse impact of including more villages in civic limits.

"It is improper to add more villages in civic limits till the PMC provides basic civic facilities to the already merged villages," said Shinde.

Congress leader Ulhas Bagul said the civic body should take into consideration the increase in population in the city and its possible impact on the existing civic facilities.

MNS leader Vasant More said the villages proposed to be merged are far from the civic limits and the administration should visit them before recommending their inclusion in the civic jurisdiction.

In the proposal, the civic administration has cited the villages are adjoining to the area earlier proposed to be merged in the civic jurisdiction and hence could be added to the list.

While Vadgaonsheri village had already got the administration's nod, the civic chief said the other six villages could be included in the PMC limits too.

 

NDMC names MPs in list of 1,500 defaulters

Saturday, 24 August 2013 07:41 administrator
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The Indian Express            24.08.2013

NDMC names MPs in list of 1,500 defaulters

The New Delhi Municipal Council has uploaded a list of over 1,500 MPs - past, present, even dead — who, according to its records, have not cleared electricity, water dues over the years.

In the list, the NDMC has named Rajnath Singh, Ajit Singh, Ambika Soni, Sanjay Nirupam, Renuka Chowdhury, Madhu Koda, Raj Babbar, Shabana Azmi, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Lalu Prasad Yadav. The late Kalpnath Rai, Madhav Rao Scindhia, Sunil Dutt and Rajesh Pilot also figure in the list.

This is the second time that a list naming MPs and other residents who owe money to the NDMC has been put on its website. When it was first uploaded last year, there was such an uproar that it had to be removed.

NDMC chairperson Jalaj Srivastava said the list is the existing record of arrears and has been uploaded on the website so that individuals who may have cleared their dues can inform the civic body with proof of payment.

"If anyone has cleared the dues and if the list has not been updated, he/she can contact us. We will have proper information on the arrears," Srivastava said.

In 2008, the Lok Sabha secretariat had informed the Delhi High Court that dues from MPs were being recovered by deducting amounts from salaries and pensions. An NDMC official said there was still some confusion on how to recover dues from from MPs who have passed away.

 

Corporation flays Engineers for bad condition of roads

Friday, 23 August 2013 10:38 administrator
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The New Indian Express               23.08.2013

Corporation flays Engineers for bad condition of roads

GHMC standing committee members and floor leaders expressed their dissatisfaction with regard to road maintenance works and poor functioning of the engineers working for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).

GHMC mayor, M Majid Hussain along with GHMC commissioner, MT Krishna Babu, held a review meeting on various civic related issues with standing committee members, floor leaders and additional commissioners.

The members informed that the resolutions of the standing committee and the general body are not being implemented by the engineers right below from the lower staff.

Responding to remarks made by the standing committee members and floor leaders, the commissioner said that since the last two and half years, it was observed that no memo has been issued for any engineer for dereliction of duties and asked the engineer-in-chief to look  into the matter.

He further stated that specific instructions have been given to superintendent engineers to take up regular review meetings every month, but none of them followed the instructions.

Responding to the request of standing committee members and floor leaders regarding the laying of permanent roads, the commissioner said that a stretch-wise study of lapses will be taken up by appointing a consultant and based on the report, the laying of permanent roads will be taken up.

Floor leaders pointed out that a file currently takes 25 days to reach the superintendent engineer from the executive engineer .

The ultimate solution for this would be fixing up of responsibility on the concerned executive engineers, who are supposed to follow the tasks from the day of sanction.

 
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