Urban News

  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
Towns and Cities

GHMC standing panel poll held

Friday, 07 June 2013 06:20 administrator
Print PDF

The Hindu                 07.06.2013

GHMC standing panel poll held

Special Correspondent

All the official candidates of the Congress and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), eight and seven corporators respectively, were elected to the GHMC standing committee in the poll conducted at the head office on Thursday.

GHMC’s 150 corporators of the council are eligible to participate in the voting and there were altogether 18 candidates in the fray for the 15-member panel, including one TD corporator, a BJP corporator and another, a dummy Congress candidate.

TD corporator Bhanu Prasad got 67 votes while BJP’s Sahadev got 35 votes indicating that there was cross-voting in the second preference votes even if it did not affect the final outcome. The newly-elected members will be part of the standing committee which is presided over by Mayor Majid Hussain for a one-year period.

 

Pay revision for municipal staff likely

Friday, 07 June 2013 05:47 administrator
Print PDF

The Hindu                 07.06.2013

Pay revision for municipal staff likely

Special Correspondent

Urban Affairs Minister Manjalamkuzhi Ali has said that the government is actively considering a proposal to revise the salaries and benefits of municipal employees to the level of State government employees.

At a press conference here on Thursday, he said Kerala would constitute an ‘Apartments Regulatory Authority’ within two months to check real estate foul play and protect apartment buyers.

The authority would be an institution under the Central Act governing the subject, but the State government would soon bring before the Assembly a Bill that would have provisions covering the Kerala situation.

All-party meet

On the danger posed by garbage problem in Thiruvananthapuram in the context of the monsoon, the Minister said he would convene an all-party meeting within a week to work out a solution.

He said he was especially unhappy about the attitude of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, which had been shirking its responsibility for long.

The government had constituted an expert committee to propose appropriate technology for tackling the garbage issue. The committee would give its report before this month-end, he said.

 

Top Pune Municipal Corporation officials transferred

Thursday, 06 June 2013 12:20 administrator
Print PDF

The Times of India               06.06.2013

Top Pune Municipal Corporation officials transferred

PUNE: The civic administration on Wednesday transferred officials of the rank of deputy commissioner in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).

Assistant commissioner Madhav Jagtap has been given the charge of anti-encroachment department. Sunil Kesari, who was heading the technical department, will work as zonal commissioner of zone 1, while Vijay Dahibhate, the current zonal commissioner for zone 1, will take charge of the technical department.

Deputy commissioner D P More will head the sky sign department, while Ramesh Shelar, who was in the news for alleged encroachments in the properties owned by his wife and family members, has been given charge of security department. He was removed from the two posts on Tuesday, said a senior PMC official.

 
More Articles...


Page 126 of 870