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Civic body to prepare register of its property

Tuesday, 28 August 2012 09:13 administrator
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The Times of India             28.08.2012

Civic body to prepare register of its property

KOZHIKODE: City corporation will upgrade the register of property owned by the civic body soon. The local self government department has issued an order on August 6, directing all local self-government bodies in the state to prepare a detailed register of land owned by the respective LSG bodies.

The register prepared by the local self-government bodies in 2005-2006 was digitalized by the Information Kerala Mission using sanchitha software. The government has issued the new GO after finding many anomalies in the register. The government has asked the LSG bodies to submit the details to the Information Kerala Mission (IKM) by the end of October this year for the state level compilation of the data after rectifying all the anomalies. The register will be having information such as length of roads, number of buildings in the corporation limit, extend of buildings and land, survey number and type of plots, the year of property purchased and the amount spent to purchase the land. It will also categorize the property owned by the civic body such as commercial plots, industrial plots, market, hospitals, agriculture and education.

Kozhikode corporation engineer P Gopalakirshnan said the register of property owned by the city corporation has already been made. "We need to upgrade it adding the information on the three grama panchayats, which was merged with the corporation and make validation of the property," he said. 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 09:16
 

Councillors vs executive engineers: Mayor promises quick solution

Tuesday, 28 August 2012 09:01 administrator
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The Times of India    28.08.2012

Councillors vs executive engineers: Mayor promises quick solution

GURGAON: After several councillors complained to the mayor that the MCG executive engineers do not pay any attention to their views and complaints, the mayor called a meeting on Monday in which all the executive engineers were asked to explain their behaviour. The mayor also said that the engineers should visit the wards at least once a week and meet the councillor concerned and keep them updated about %various development projects taking place in the ward.

In the meeting, the executive engineers listed out the problems faced by them and the mayor promised to look into the matter. The mayor said he would also take up their case with the municipal commissioner.

"The main problem we are facing right now is that we are severely short-staffed and the work load is huge. Even though the authorities are aware of this difficult situation, they have deputed some of the executive engineers in the enforcement wing of the corporation because of which these engineers are spending most of their time on removing encroachments rather than focusing on development projects," said an executive engineer.

"We have asked the mayor to ensure that the enforcement wing and the engineering wing are alienated from each other so that we can concentrate on development issues. We have also requested him to expedite the process of hiring more executive engineers as we are only seven of us right now. And since there are 35 different wards it is burdensome to visit all of them every week," he added.

The mayor said that he will talk to the commissioner about the problems faced by the executive engineers. "I met the executive engineers to understand the problems faced by them. We have been asking the state government for more manpower but we are yet to hear from the authorities. I will ask the commissioner to once again take up the matter with the department concerned. Also the executive engineers will not be asked to do both the enforcement and development work," said mayor Vimal Yadav..
Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 09:03
 

Scrapping of market site may rock MC meet

Tuesday, 28 August 2012 08:49 administrator
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The Times of India    28.08.2012

Scrapping of market site may rock MC meet

CHANDIGARH: The crucial issue of cancellation of site for 136 day-market shops in Mauli Jagran will be among the agenda of the monthly house meeting to be held on Wednesday. The market was approved by the last term general house of the MC and the site and other drawings were later approved by UT's architect wing, but the ruling Congress has now come up with the issue that site of market is not suitable as there's a kerosene oil pump adjoining the site and parking lot is congested.

According to sources in Congress, strict directions for cancellation were issued by Madhu Bansal, wife of Congress MP Pawan Kumar Bansal. But, BJP is in the mood to disturb the monthly house meeting by raising the point that when everything has been approved by both MC and UT then why market is being cancelled now after the approval of over one year.

Significantly, the point was prominently mentioned in the Independence Day speech of city mayor in the developmental plan of the civic body and now it's headed for cancellation."The former BJP councillor wants to give maximum booths to his supporters. While there are just 138 booths, over 500 people are eligible for it as they have been sitting there on temporary basis. Secondly, MC it's not the MC's job to allot booths. Mauli Jagran has around 35,000 votes that play crucial role during parliamentary polls, scheduled to be held in 2014," said a senior Congress leader.BJP councillor Arun Sood said, "We will oppose the cancellation. We have also requested to nominated councillor and BSP to not support Congress on this."

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 08:52
 
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