The Hindu 11.04.2013
Council nod for city sanitation plan
Part of urban development scheme of Centre.
A meeting of the city Corporation council here on Wednesday decided to give the green signal to the city sanitation plan as part of the Capacity Building Urban Development (CBUD) scheme of the Union Ministry of Urban Development.
A consultant will be appointed to draft the plan.
Mayor Prasanna Earnest told the council that the first phase of the domestic biogas plant project would be launched this month.
As many as 10,000 domestic biogas units would be installed in two phases in a bid to address the solid waste disposal problem in the city. Each unit attracted 75 per cent subsidy.
The Corporation would organise awareness campaigns to promote the installation of such plants, the Mayor said.
Opposition charge
Meanwhile, the members of the Opposition in the council alleged that the move to install high-mast lights at the Mahatma Gandhi park complex on the Kollam beach through allocations from the Local Area Development Fund of the Members of Parliament was an undue consideration shown to the contractor entrusted with the maintenance of the park. Leader of the Opposition in the council George D. Kattil said the MP fund should be utilised for installing such lights in other areas of the city.
Mr. Kattil alleged that the Opposition was being kept in the dark about many administrative matters of the Corporation.
While all members of the other city Corporation councils in the State had been provided with details of fund utilisation, there was no such move in the Kollam Corporation.
Answering a question, Ms. Earnest said the third and fourth instalments of the EMS Housing Scheme would be distributed immediately.
