The Hindu 12.02.2010
Move to shift new Mysore bus-stand illogical: Mayor
Staff Correspondent
| ‘Experts, elected representatives should have been consulted’ |
‘The new bus-stand was built last year by spending 14 crore’
Mayor opposes decision to bring 88 residential layouts under the Mysore City Corporation
MYSORE: Mayor Purushottam on Thursday criticised the traffic coordination committee constituted by the district administration for proposing to shift the newly-built city bus-stand to the suburban bus-stand (under construction) on Bangalore-Nilgiris Road and said that he would write to the Centre, which had sanctioned funds for the bus-stand work under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM), against the proposal.
“It is a unilateral decision taken by the officials. None of the elected representatives, including MLAs, MLCs, MP or corporators, have been consulted before making the proposal. As the first citizen of Mysore, I oppose the proposal made during the review meeting of the committee on Wednesday, which, according to me, was done keeping the elected representatives in the dark,” the Mayor told presspersons.
The Mayor said that the district administration could have consulted experts and elected representatives here before making the proposals, especially the one related to the city bus-stand.
“Especially, the proposal on shifting the bus-stand is illogical as it was built last year by spending Rs. 14 crore. The administration could have made this proposal before taking up work on the bus-stand,” he said.
The traffic coordination committee had proposed to have a parking zone near the city bus-stand and a cycling track around the palace. The relocation of the city bus-stand, according to the committee, will ease traffic congestion near the busy K.R. Circle.
The Mayor also opposed the decision on bringing 88 residential layouts developed by the Mysore Urban Development Authority and private developers under the jurisdiction of the Mysore City Corporation.
“It will be a burden on the city corporation if the layouts developed by MUDA and others are handed over to it without proper basic facilities. The parks in MUDA-developed layouts that were brought under the MCC in the recent years had not been developed properly, thus causing difficulty in their maintenance,” he said.
He expressed apprehensions about the release of funds under JnNURM for other projects in the city following the move to shift the city bus-stand.
