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Dustbins must for shops in city bus stands, says mayor

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:54
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The Times of India             12.02.2014

Dustbins must for shops in city bus stands, says mayor

MADURAI: In an effort to make Madurai a clean city, the corporation has come down hard on shop keepers in and around Periyar bus stand and complex bus stand.

Mayor V V Rajan Chellappa has instructed all the shop owners inside the bus stand premises to keep a dustbin in front of their shops. They have been given a deadline of two days for the task and any shop found without dustbin will be penalized with fine, he warned.

Meanwhile, night cleaning was undertaken at Periyar bus stand and its surrounding areas from October last year and nearly 50 sanitary workers were deputed for the same. The mayor and the corporation commissioner, Kiran Gurrala, inspected the night cleaning works on Monday night, following which they decided to implement this measure inside the bus stand too.

Periyar stand is one of the important bus terminals in the city . There are nearly 50 shops inside the terminal. Another good number of shops can be spotted near the Complex stand that operates city-bound buses to farther destinations.

According to the mayor, the civic body had distributed small dustbins to households in the city under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) to keep the city clean. They are now tightening up cleanliness measures at many important places, including Periyar stand..

The shop owners of both Periyar bus stand and Complex Stand were asked to keep dustbins. "In fact we have told them that they are responsible for the garbage strewn in front of their shops. The sanitary workers can clean the garbage thrown by the public but when shopowners dump them in open, it becomes a tedious task," he said.

Sanitary inspectors will monitor the shops in the coming days to ensure that the owners adhere to the new norm.

 

Master Plan to include new transport hubs

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:52
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The Times of India             12.02.2014

Master Plan to include new transport hubs

COIMBATORE: Senior officials from Coimbatore municipal corporation and the Local Planning Authority on Tuesday held a discussion to integrate the recently announced mobility and transportation projects in the city limits to be included in the Master Plan for Coimbatore district. The city municipal corporation is planning to implement a series of traffic improvement proposals including setting up of cycle tracks, pedestrian zones and other infrastructure improvements. Apart from these the various provisions of the city development and mobility plans expected to be formally announced in the coming months are integrated with the master plan document.

"The discussion was held to check and integrate our transportation improvement proposals with the Coimbatore master plan. The proposals in the city development and mobility plans should also be incorporated in the master plan. The discussion was to ensure these aspects," said G Latha, commissioner, Coimbatore municipal corporation.

Apart from these proposals, the Master Plan is also expected to include provisions for Mono Rail project and its feasibility study as announced by the government. The Commissionerate of Municipal Admnistration through an independent transport consultancy firm has come up with a mobility plan for the city.

"It was just a discussion to ensure that there will be no inconsistency between the final master plan document and the projects proposed by the city municipal corporation," Latha added.

According to Local Planning Authority officials, the Coimbatore Master Plan is in the final stages of approval and is expected to be released soon. However, the master plan has been long delayed and though the review master plan was approved in 2011, the final document is yet to be cleared from the government. The Directorate of Town and Country Planning along with the district Local Planning authority had also sought suggestions and opinions from the public as part of the review and fine tuning exercise. More than 2000 suggestions were received in this regard and were reportedly taken up for consideration based on the merits and feasibility factors.

 

Chennai mayor inaugurates free diabetes camps

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:51
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The Times of India             12.02.2014

Chennai mayor inaugurates free diabetes camps

CHENNAI: Chennai mayor Saidai Duraisamy inaugurated free diabetes camps in the city on Tuesday.

The Chennai Corporation along with Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre is conducting the free camps across the city as part of chief minister Jayalalithaa's 66th birthday celebrations.

The mayor inaugurated the programme at Pulianthope Kesava Pillai Park.

The corporation is planning to screen 66,000 people for diabetes. "We will conduct free medical camps in 1,260 slums, 40 parks across the 15 zones. We will also provide free medicines to those who have tested positive for diabetes," corporation officials said.

Dr V Mohan, chairman of Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, said a recent ICMR-INDIAB study shows that 14% of urban people and 8% of rural people have diabetes. "But unfortunately many people are unaware that they have diabetes. There is also a need for a mass screening to detect such patients," he said.

The civic body has screened 2,76,757 people for diabetes and 3,42,354 people for blood pressure and identified 60,124 new cases of diabetics and 50,614 new cases of blood pressure since 2005.

 
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