The Hindu 19.02.2013
GVMC moves to clean up dump yard
The GVMC has initiated action to clean up the nearly 80-acre dump yard at Kapuluppada where municipal garbage is being dumped for nearly 17 years now.
It would call for tenders offering an estimated 15-lakh tons of garbage. Price per ton would be decided and some six months would be given to lift the quantity, Municipal Commissioner M.V. Satyanarayana said briefing reporters about the decisions taken by B. Sam Bob, Special Officer of the GVMC and Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development, during his visit last week.
The Special Officer also approved a move to appoint a private agency to do the ground work identifying vacant land in the city for levy of vacant land tax.
Once the work was done, GVMC officials would inspect and take a decision on levying the tax.
Mr. Satyanarayana said around 50,000 plots needed to be identified. In the budget Rs.170 crore was being projected as income from VLT but in reality only Rs.5 crore was being realised.
Survey of properties
The Special Officer also approved survey of GVMC properties, lands and those allotted by the District Collector under the supervision of a retired assistant director of Survey and Land Records. Six surveyors would assist him.
“The entire details will be digitised,” the Commissioner said.
The corporation plans to take up seven-foot footpaths on 52-km stretch in public-private partnership mode. The agency would be allowed to sell advertisement space on the hoardings along the footpaths.
Mr. Satyanarayana said 16 of the 26 kalyanamantapams that had been issued closure notices for lack of fire safety ordered equipment.
Final action would be taken by the month-end.
On a complaint received at the grievances on Monday, he ordered that a kalyanamantapam being run unauthorised on residential premises at Kakaninagar in Ward 67 be closed immediately.
It
was one of the decisions taken by GVMC Special Officer B. Sam Bob
during his visit to the city last week, says Municipal Commissioner.
