The Pioneer 13.09.2010
MCG setting up CSC to monitor implementation of development workPNS | Chandigarh
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) seems to be blazing a new trail. Giving citizens a decisive say in the day-to-day administration, the MCG has adopted the novel practice of setting up a Citizens Supervisory Committee (CSC) to monitor implementation of every development work.
RK Khullar, commissioner of MCG said: “This system has been evolved to involve people in the administration, and lend credibility to the works being executed. When citizens see themselves that the work being executed at the ground level, it will satisfy them.”
Developmental works worth `110.16 crore are likely to be allotted in the next three months. While new works worth `62 crore are in progress, the two-year-old MCG has spent ` 82.77 crore on such works out of which ` 73 crore was spent in the second year.
MCG came into being on June 2, 2008, upon extension of the territorial limits of the Gurgaon Municipal Council, which led to an increase in its population from about 2.25 lakh to more than 11 lakh.
Besides, the MCG has widened two major arteries, namely the Old Railway Road and the New Railway Road. Work on the third major road opposite bus-stand, is likely to be completed on war footing after the monsoon.
The civic body has also come forward to provide succor to people of both unapproved and approved colonies of old town in meeting the basic human need of safe drinking water. Thirty three new tubewell have already been made functional; and another 13 tubewells are likely to be completed soon in the water-starved areas of the old town and villages.
