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Birur Town Municipal Council smothered in squalor

Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:37 administrator
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The Deccan Herald  16.09.2010

Birur Town Municipal Council smothered in squalor

Birur, Sept 15, DH News Service:

The Town Municipal Council, which is supposed to ensure cleanliness of the town seems to have not yet been acquainted to the concept of cleanliness. One look at the Council building and this statement seems true.

Mosquitoes and larvae breeding on stagnant water around the council building, litter and heaps of waste dumped in the premises, weeds growing on council building hold mirror to how efficiently the Town Municipal Council has been performing its duty of maintaining cleanliness in the town. People visiting the Council to get their works done have been wondering how the officials have been working in the building being blind to the dirt around them. The visitors say that elected representatives and officials should wake up to the situation and take steps to beautify the building and keep the premises clean.

Last Updated on Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:40
 

GHMC panel meet a damp squib

Thursday, 16 September 2010 09:22 administrator
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The Hindu    16.09.2010

GHMC panel meet a damp squib

Special Correspondent

No item listed on agenda was passed

HYDERABAD: The GHMC Standing Committee meeting on Wednesday turned out to be a damp squib with not a single item on the listed agenda getting passed. For a good amount of time, most members quarrelled with Mayor B. Kartika Reddy over allotment of a room for them in the head office.

All for a room!

The meeting itself began late as members, mostly Congress corporators, demanded a separate room be allocated as they come from far off places to the meeting and need to take a break.

Their choice was a room which was earlier occupied by the chairperson of the standing committee of erstwhile MCH.

However, Ms. Reddy who is now the presiding authority refused pointing out that she was also the chairperson now! She did not relent even when it was pointed out that she was already having a spacious ante room.

Later, another senior Congress corporator said the committee meetings had no value when officials were not taking a decision on resolution passed by the council as well as the panel on taking up works based on nominations. “The roads are bad and many works have been held up due to the e-tendering process,” was his contention.

A couple of Majlis corporators berated the health and sanitation officials for unhygienic conditions in the capital.

They were furious when it was informed that pressing in more sanitation teams meant an expenditure of crores of rupees and only the Commissioner was empowered to take such a decision.

Issues put off

All the subjects listed like pay hikes, insurance packages to the sanitary contract workers, development of footpaths, night shelters, etc., were put off to next week's meeting.

Last Updated on Thursday, 16 September 2010 09:25
 

MCD removes GK-I site from list of debris dumps

Thursday, 16 September 2010 09:13 administrator
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 The Times of India             16.09.2010

MCD removes GK-I site from list of debris dumps

NEW DELHI: A day after TOI reported how malba or construction debris was being dumped at GK-I's R block by MCD, the civic body claimed on Wednesday that it was not dumping any Commonwealth Games-related debris there.

Contrary to what people at the site, including residents and cops, had told TOI on Tuesday, MCD blamed builders, private contractors and local residents for the mess.

However, with the lieutenant-governor's office breathing down its neck on the issue, MCD announced in the same breath that it was dropping the site from its list of dumping grounds for debris. MCD workers were seen cleaning up the area and putting up a notice board announcing the decision.

It is learnt that LG's OSD Ranjan Mukherjee discussed the matter with MCD commissioner K S Mehra and the deputy commissioner of the area and asked them to clean up the site.
 
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