The Hindu 30.11.2009
GMC corporators go on study tour
Staff Reporter
| They will visit Delhi, Chandigarh and Jaipur |
Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar 
On a mission: Corporators leaving on a study tour in Guntur on Sunday. —
GUNTUR: A group of 40 members, including 25 corporators of the Guntur Municipal Corporation, some of them accompanied by their families and officials left for a 12-day study tour on Sunday. The group would visit New Delhi, Chandigarh, and Jaipur and have an on-the-spot assessment of implementation of various schemes relating to drinking water supply, sanitation, under ground drainage and the other civic services.
Deputy Commissioner S. Lakshminarayana, Superintendent Engineer Ramachandar and manager Madhusudana Rao were accompanying the team.
Mayor Rayapati Mohana Sai Krishna saw the corporators off at the GMC office and said that he would join at New Delhi on December 4 to study the functioning of waste-to-energy plant.
The study tour might be the last outing for the corporators before they plunge into the din of municipal elections slated to be held in June 2010.
The corporators have been harping on the tour and the civic authorities planning to implement a slew of schemes, arranged for the study tour covering some of the better governed cities.
The GMC is also mulling to start a waste-to-energy plant, on the lines of Shriram Energy Plant in Vijayawada, and would like to have a feed back from the corporators.
The corporators earlier wanted to their families to accompany them. With Municipal Commissioner K. Ilambarthi taking a stern stand that the travel allowances for the family members would not be paid by the corporation, the corporators were forced to bear the travel costs.
