The New Indian Express 08.08.2013
City Corporation to convene meet soon
The City Corporation will convene a meeting of all party members and employees’ organisations soon to find solutions to the cases that exist in the name of the people’s representatives and officials. It was while winding up the special council meeting convened on Wednesday to discuss the issues of the discord between councillors and officials and the complaints about the officials regarding executing the services to the public that Mayor K Chandrika made the announcement.
The special meeting was held following the demand of 49 councillors in the opposition, as the Mayor had rejected an adjournment motion moved in the previous council meeting over the same subject.
Yet, the four-hour meeting did not see a healthy discussion as many deviated from the subject itself.
The discussion, which was started with UDF councillor Maheswaran Nair, ended on a rather cold note. He said organisations that try to protect the tainted officials will not be supported, whatever party they belong to. And demanded that the organisations should work towards rooting out corruption.
When LDF leader V S Padmakumar delved into the achievements of the present council in the past two-and-a-half years, BJP leader P Asok Kumar pointed out that much delay caused in getting things done results in corruption. He also suggested several measures, including appointing a public relations officer in the Corporation office to help the people who come for various needs.
Those who spoke after that touched on peripheral issues regarding the subject and failed to come up with concrete examples to point out any instances. Many did not name the officials who were said to be involved in discords with the councillors or how they were not giving proper services to the public. The discussion appeared to be on the lines of the question asked by Deputy Mayor G Happykumar towards the end, ‘’for whom was this meeting convened?’’
