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Change in water supply schedule from today

Monday, 27 March 2017 06:23 administrator

The Hindu 27.03.2017

Change in water supply schedule from today

The water level at AMR Power Ltd.’s dam at Shamboor upstream Thumbe stood at 5.35 m on Sunday against the maximum storage level of 6.25 m.FILE PHOTO

Now, round-the-clock water supply for 72 hours

After supplying water once in every 36 hours in the city for a week, Mangaluru City Corporation has announced a change in the schedule from Monday.

Starting from March 27, the city will get water supply round-the-clock for three days (for 72 hours) and then, it will go without water for two days (48 hours). The same schedule would be repeated week on week.

This step, Mayor Kavita Sanil said, is to ensure that water reached areas located uphill in the city.

She said that the corporation received complaints that some houses in the upper reaches in wards such as Falnir and Kankanady-Valencia did not get water after the 36-hour supply schedule was adopted.

The Mayor said that she was appealing to the people to reduce water consumption for the next two months. She has been receiving complaints that in many areas people were wasting fresh water by spraying it on the roads to suppress dust.

There was a specific complaint that a house owner in Kankanady ward was letting water supplied by the corporation into the domestic well.

The water supply officials went to the house and warned the owner.

The Mayor said that toilet flush consumed more water. In the apartment she was living in Bejai, she convinced the owners of 22 flats and ensured that they adjusted the flush to let out less water. Thus, the apartment has reduced its water consumption to a great extent. Flat owners and resident associations of apartments should consider it seriously to save water.

Meanwhile, according to a water supply engineer, the water level at the Thumbe vented dam supplying water to the city stood at 4.90 m on Sunday against the maximum storage capacity of 5 m. The water level at the vented dam of AMR Power Pvt. Ltd. at Shambhoor on the upstream of Thumbe stood at 5.35 m against the maximum storage level of 6.25 m.

The corporation stopped daily water supply on March 20.

Thrust on waste management, infrastructure

Saturday, 25 March 2017 07:49 administrator

The Hindu 25.03.2017

Thrust on waste management, infrastructure

Deputy Mayor Rakhi Ravikumar presenting the Corporation budget on Friday; (right) BJP councillors returning the red bags distributed along with the budget document and asking for black ones instead at the council hall.C. Ratheesh Kumar

City Corporation presents Rs. 988.96-crore budget for 2017-18; My City, Beautiful City project gets an outlay of Rs. 20 crore

With liberal quotes of O.N.V. Kurup’s poetry and a spell of magic in the surplus figures, Deputy Mayor Rakhi Ravikumar presented the city Corporation’s Rs. 988.96-crore budget for the financial year 2017-18. But the revised budget estimates for the previous year might not be comfortable reading for the Corporation authorities as the total expenditure stands at Rs. 486.2 crore, just about one-third of the total outlay of Rs. 1,248.36.

That perhaps explains this year’s comparatively reduced outlay, which has fallen below Rs. 1,000 crore for the first time in recent years. The surplus in the previous year’s revised budget is a hefty Rs. 239.8 crore, while this year it is Rs. 64.19 crore.

The Corporation’s budget looks partly like a rewind of the budgets from previous years, though some level of freshness and even adventure, in the form of an amusement park at Vilappilsala, is evident. Waste management and infrastructure continues to be the focus of the budget this year too.

The My City, Beautiful City project gets an outlay of Rs. 20 crore. Keeping in mind the local body’s current blanket ban on plastic bags and criticism from various quarters on the lack of enough materials to replace them, the budget has proposed the setting up of a manufacturing unit of cloth and paper bags at a cost of Rs. 2.5 crore, with the prospect of employing 2,000 people.

As a first step towards completely shifting to LED street lighting, Rs. 10 crore has been set aside for solar powered-LED lights along the Kazhakuttam-Kovalam bypass. LED lights will be used for all new street light replacements in the current year. For the development of model ring roads connecting the Highways, an amount of Rs. 8 crore has been allocated. Ward resource centres get an allocation of Rs. 30 crore. For the upgrading of sewerage networks, Rs. 5 crore has been set aside.

A modern ‘city hall’ will be set up on the Corporation’s land at Jagathy, at a cost of Rs. 10 crore. Convention centres will come up at Vazhayila and Kadakampally at a total cost of Rs. 20 crore.

For mini drinking water projects, Rs. 20 crore has been allocated. The slaughterhouse at Kunnukuzhy, which has remained closed for the past three years, is set for a revival at a cost of Rs. 15 crore.

The existing crematoriums at Kazhakuttam and Kanjirampara will be renovated at a cost of Rs. 2 crore. Corporation’s hospitals will be renovated at a cost of Rs. 3 crore.

The budget has set aside Rs. 75 lakh for buying bicycles for girl students of classes 8 and 9 in the coastal regions and in the Scheduled Caste regions. The ‘Ananthapuri medicals’ project at a cost of Rs. 20 lakh is aimed at making accessible medicines at affordable cost.

MCC budget: Focus on roads, waste management

Saturday, 25 March 2017 07:45 administrator

The Hindu 25.03.2017

MCC budget: Focus on roads, waste management

Money play:Mayor M.J. Ravi Kumar and office-bearers of the Mysuru City Corporation arriving for the 2017-18 MCC budget presentation in the city on Friday.M.A. SRIRAM

Civic body looks to launch works to keep Mysuru clean and green, even as roadworks get big allocation; total expenditure pegged at Rs. 864 cr.

The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) budget for 2017-18 envisages a slew of development works to make the city pothole free, besides creating infrastructure for solid waste management.

Fresh efforts will be made to secure Mysuru’s status of as the ‘heritage city’, even as urban forestry programmes will be taken up in a big way to ensure that the city is not only clean but also green.

The budget, presented here on Friday, has projected revenue of Rs. 869.53 crore against expenditure of Rs. 864.83 crore. A total of Rs. 153.2 crore has been earmarked for road repair and other works. This divides into Rs. 126.5 crore for laying new roads and Rs. 26.70 crore for scientific repair and asphalting of roads and potholes.

The budget, which was presented by K.V. Mallesh, chairman of the MCC Committee on Taxation, Finance and Appeals, has set aside Rs. 72.11 crore for solid waste management, for which new infrastructure will be established. A detailed project report has been finalised and Rs. 53.7 crore has been earmarked for establishing two new facilities.

While a new facility to handle 150 tonnes of solid waste a day will come up at Rayanakere, another with a capacity of 200 tonnes will be established at Kesare. Besides, the capacity of the existing solid waste treatment plant at Vidyaranyapuram will be raised. The DPR has already been submitted to the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation for approval. At present, the city generates nearly 402 tonnes of waste a day, of which 145 tonnes is being dumped in landfills. The new facilities are expected to take care of this waste.

Estimate down

The revenue by way of property tax has been pegged at Rs. 175.12 crore, down from nearly Rs. 200 crore projected in the last year’s budget. But by the end of December 2016, the MCC had realised only Rs. 84.67 crore.

As part of urban greening and forestry, the civic body has held talks with the Forest Department and will hand over 400 lawns and parks in its jurisdiction to the latter. The allocation for urban greenery and park development through the department is Rs. 20.87 crore.

To restore lakes that are not fed by canals or rivers, Rs. 20 crore has been set aside to create rainwater harvesting systems to replenish the lakes in the low-lying areas.

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