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Ensure quality of RO plants, says VMC chief

Tuesday, 23 September 2014 06:50 administrator
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The Hindu             23.09.2014  

Ensure quality of RO plants, says VMC chief

Municipal Commissioner C. Hari Kiran instructed the civic officials to procure the best quality equipment for the Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants to be established under the first phase of NTR Sujala Sravanthi scheme in different parts of the city.

In a review meeting on the subject at Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) office on Monday, Mr. Kiran said RO plants were to be set up in 10 divisions (8, 9, 13, 14, 26, 43, 45, 54, 56 and 57) in the initial phase for which lands were already identified. The officials should ensure that the RO plants did not hinder movement of vehicles while ensuring easy accessibility.

A sum of Rs. 14 lakh was sanctioned for construction of sheds in the respective divisions and Rs 10 lakh for providing bore-wells. Quality should be ensured lest penal action should be taken against the derelict officers, he warned.

VMC Superintending engineer Md. Imam Mohiddin, City Planner S. Chakrapani, Chief Medical Officer P. Ratnavali and Assistant City Planner V. Suneetha were among the participants.

 

Jayalalithaa to open Amma canteens at four more Chennai hospitals

Monday, 22 September 2014 11:50 administrator
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The Times of India        22.09.2014  

Jayalalithaa to open Amma canteens at four more Chennai hospitals

 

Jayalalithaa to open Amma canteens at four more Chennai hospitals
The chief minister will inaugurate the canteens at Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children in Triplicane, RSRM Hospital inCHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa will inaugurate Amma canteens on the premises of four hospitals in Chennai on Monday.

The chief minister will inaugurate the canteens at Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children in Triplicane, RSRM Hospital in Royapuram, Kilpauk Medical College and Royapettah Government Hospital. She is expected to visit the canteen at the Kasturba Gandhi Hospital. The chief minister will inaugurate the three other canteens through video conferencing.

Amma canteens are already functioning at the Government General Hospital (GH), Government Stanley Medical College Hospital and Institute of Child Health (ICH). These canteens provide hygienic food at affordable prices. For breakfast one can have an idli for Re 1 while a plate of pongal will cost Rs 3. For lunch, a plate of curd rice is available at Rs 3. Sambar rice, lemon rice and curry leaves rice are priced at Rs 5. Roti and dal are provided during dinner. A plate of two rotis and dal are priced at Rs 3.

Each of the 200 wards of the Chennai Corporation has an Amma canteen. Thousands of people, including daily labourers, drivers, migrant workers and office-goers are regular customers of these canteens.

It may be recalled that a delegation from Egypt visited the canteen at the GH recently to study the logistics involved. Representatives of civic bodies in Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh also visited the canteen and expressed the desire to implement the scheme in those cities. Royapuram, Kilpauk Medical College and Royapettah Government Hospital. 
 
 
 

 

 

Civic body to measure human devpt index of city

Monday, 22 September 2014 10:36 administrator
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The Times of India        22.09.2014 

Civic body to measure human devpt index of city

NASHIK: The civic body is planning to measure the city's Human Development Index (HDI), which it hopes will help gather social and economic details of the people.

As part of this, the NMC has written to Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, (Yashada) Pune and All India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG), Mumbai.

A senior NMC official said, "We are planning to measure the HDI of the city on the lines of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. This will help us get various information about the economic and social status about the city's people. We have written letters to Yashada Pune and AIILSG, Mumbai for the HDI work and urged them to provide us with details on how they would measure the HDI and its criteria."

He added, "Generally, the HDI survey is based on some basic indicators of human development such as life expectancy, literacy rate, mortality rate of infants and age."

The official also said the civic body would start the process once it received the replies from the institutes. "The information we get will help us make better economic and financial planning. We will finalise one of the institutes to conduct HDI survey of all 122 prabhags of the city. The NMC would be the second municipal corporation after the BMC to take up such initiative. The proposal would be presented at the general body immediately after the assembly elections ."

Currently, the population in the municipal corporation's limits is close to 18 lakh. The state government has changed the status of the municipal corporation from 'C' to 'B' on the basis of the population of the city and the per capita income over Rs 5,000. The budget of the NMC has reached Rs 3,000 crore.

 

 
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