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MCC elections: Yamunanagar records highest voting percentage

Monday, 03 June 2013 00:00 administrator
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The Pioneer             03.06.2013

MCC elections: Yamunanagar records highest voting percentage

Highest voter turnout of 74.27 per cent in Yamunanagar was recorded on Sunday during the Municipal Corporation elections in Haryana.

Polling for election in seven Municipal Corporations and two Municipalities in Haryana was held on Sunday. The second highest voter turnout was 73.5 per cent in Karnal followed by 67.74 per cent in Rohtak, 67.75 per cent in Panipat and 67.23 per cent in Hisar. Voter turnout was 67.1 per cent in Ambala and 62.86 per cent in Panchkula.

However, in case of Municipalities, it was 90.62 per cent in Farukh nagar and 87 per cent in Kalanaur.

Dharam Vir, State Election Commissioner said that the polling for election to seven Municipal Corporations and two Municipalities in Haryana was held in a peaceful manner except some scuffles at few places. Three villages in Panipat district namely Nizampur, Shimla and Mullana boycotted the MC polls as the voters did not participate in the election process. They wanted their villages be excluded from the ambit of Municipal Corporation and kept under the Panchayats.

Even as Deputy Commissioner and senior Police Officers had visited these villages to urge the voters to exercise their right to vote, they did not agree to vote. A decision whether to keep these villages under the Municipal Corporation or under the Panchayat is to be taken by the Government.

Vir further added that counting of votes for election of seven municipal corporations will take place on June 4 at 8 am. The electronic voting machines would be kept in safe custody in the same manner as in case of elections to Assembly or Lok Sabha constituencies.

CCTV would be installed at the places where the Electronic Voting Machines have been stored and guarded by the Haryana Armed Police and Reserved Indian Battalion.

He said that no incident of bogus voting has been reporting from any Municipal Corporation and Municipality.Meanwhile, nine persons have been kept under detention on Sunday as they intended to create some trouble during polling at Municipal Corporation, Panchkula.

Scuffles take place at Panchkula, many held

Chandigarh: A scuffle took place between the supporters of BJP and INLD parties at polling booth in Little Flower School at Sector 14 here. The scuffle continued for more than 15 minutes and was finally stopped with the intervention of Panchkula Police, who took the supporters of both parties into custody and later on released them.

Another scuffle took place between a candidate and bouncers of another candidate at ward number 10 in Panchkula. After this, police took the bouncers into custody for few hours, and then reportedly released them.

Also, Haryana police has arrested 17 persons near Sector 1, who were moving in suspicious circumstances during polling to the Municipal Corporation, Rohtak. Police recovered two mousers and 10 live cartridges from the possession of two of them. The police have registered cases against them for violation of model code of conduct and Arms Act.

 

Lakshminarayana is new Bangalore civic body commissioner

Friday, 31 May 2013 12:11 administrator
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The Times of India               31.05.2013

Lakshminarayana is new Bangalore civic body commissioner

BANGALORE: M Lakshminarayana was appointed the new commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Thursday. He replaced Siddaiah, who had taken charge just about seven months ago.

The posting comes in the wake of the growing cases of dengue in Bangalore. It will be a challenge for Lakshminarayana over the next few months as the dengue cases are likely to shoot up as rains are due in June and July.

Meanwhile, P N Sreenivasachary has been posted as the principal secretary of Urban development departmnent.

Other transfers: T M Vijay Bhaskar (principal secretary, RDPR), Dr E V Ramana Reddy (Principal secretary, Housing), Dr Suresh Kunhi Mohammed, (Mission director, NRHM). 

 

City Corporation gate may be opened by June 15

Friday, 31 May 2013 09:45 administrator
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The New Indian Express               31.05.2013

City Corporation gate may be opened by June 15

Since August last year, it has been ‘standing tall and high’ in front of the City Corporation office. Proudly under the shade of an entrance in Kerala model architecture standing taller than it. It is about the platinum jubilee memorial gate of the Corporation that is being said here.

 After lagging for nearly two years, the work of the gate was finally completed last year. When the work was over, the authorities promised to open it within a few weeks. Still, the gate was destined to wait for long, and now the Corporation authorities are planning to throw it open hopefully by June 15 along with the inauguration of the facilitation centre, the work of which is almost over. The gate and the huge entrance were completed by spending Rs 7.55 lakh.

 Initially, the obstruction posed by the long hand rails along the footpath outside the gate was cited to be one of the reasons for the delay in opening the gate. However, the Kerala Road Fund Board (KRFB) removed them without  much delay. Still, the gate did not open. So then, the opening of the gate and inauguration of the facilitation centre were planned together. Yet, the construction of the facilitation centre too happened at a slow pace. Again, uncertainty prevailed over the opening of the gate.

 There were also plans to create enough parking space near the facilitation centre, to reduce the size of the pond in front of the office and for the smooth flow of traffic and to close the present entrance gate to facilitate parking. However, “now the plan is to create separate parking lots for two-wheelers and four-wheelers,” said V S Padmakumar, Works Standing Committee Chairman of the Corporation.

 The work of the gate was started during the tenure of the previous council when C Jayan Babu was the Mayor.

 
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