The Hindu 18.09.2009
Corporation forms panel to frame bylaws for Council functioning
Special Correspondent
| All-party meeting reaches consensus on bus shelters |
Bus shelters to come up at places convenient and necessary for passengers
Proposal to be placed in Council for installing streetlights with light emitting diodes
Photo: S. Siva Saravanan 
For development: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (left) and Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) discuss a point at an all-party meeting in the city on Thursday. —
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation has formed a committee to frame bylaws for the smooth functioning of the elected Council.
The decision to form the committee was taken at an all-party meeting held on Thursday.
Mayor R. Venkatachalam, Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra, Deputy Mayor N. Karthik, senior officials of the Corporation, councillors heading zones and standing committees and leaders of political parties in the Council attended the meeting.
The 20-member committee consisted of these persons, Deputy Commissioner V. Shanta and the Floor Leader of the Congress and Leader of the Opposition in the Council.
Once the committee frames the bylaws, these would be placed in the Council for its approval.
The all-party meeting reached a consensus on approving the Corporation’s proposal to involve private parties in putting up shelters for passengers at bus stops.
This subject was brought up for discussion at the all-party meeting as a decision on this was not taken at the emergency meeting of the council earlier this week.
A section of the councillors had objected to the direct placing of the proposal in the Council without ratification by the Standing Committee on Town Planning.
The all-party meeting insisted that the bus shelters should be of good quality and located at places convenient and necessary for the passengers.
The meeting also decided that a proposal would be placed in the Council for installing streetlights with light emitting diodes on an expression of interest or a build-operate-transfer basis.
As the construction of a median was under progress on Avanashi Road, the Corporation would immediately take up the works to lay cables for the lights.
The Corporation planned to acquire14.4 acres at Ondipudur on the eastern border of the city to establish a sewage treatment plant. As the cost – Rs. 18.29 crore – was high, the civic body would negotiate with the owners to have it reduced.
A proposal to increase drinking water tariff as per the State Government’s guidelines was taken up for discussion at the meeting. But, for the second or third time, the party leaders wanted it to be deferred. This issue would be discussed at another all-party meeting.
