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Rs 5.8-Crore Development Package Gets Approval

Friday, 31 January 2014 06:57 administrator
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The New Indian Express               31.01.2014

Rs 5.8-Crore Development Package Gets Approval

A Rs 5.8-crore developmental package focusing mainly on infrastructure development was approved at a developmental seminar organised by the Muvattupuzha Municipality for the next fiscal.

It was suggested to allocate `1 crore for the proposed Urban Haat project at the seminar. An amount of `1.4 crore was also proposed for the maintenance work of various municipal roads. A `40-lakh proposal for municipal stadium and another `40 lakh was also allotted for the renovation of the Municipal Town Hall. A shopping complex at a cost of `45 lakh at KSRTC junction and a community hall of `13 lakh at Kuryamala were also approved at the seminar.

 Renovation of Kavumkara vegetable market and Anganvadis, setting up of ‘Pakalveed’ for the elderly are the other proposals made. Suggestions on reviewing the Muvattupuzha master plan mooted by the municipality were put forth. The developmental package contains a slew of projects for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people and in the education sector. Financial aid for youth for securing job abroad and prize award for students are the other suggestions.  The seminar was inaugurated by U R Babu, Municipal chairman, at a function held at the Municipal Town Hall on Wednesday. Municipal vice-chairperson Anis Baburaj presided over the function. Standing Committee chairmen K M Kabheer, P N Santhosh, K G Anil Kumar, Nisa Ashraf also spoke.

 

Birth/Death Certificates in an Hour, Soon

Friday, 31 January 2014 06:41 administrator
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The New Indian Express               31.01.2014

Birth/Death Certificates in an Hour, Soon

Over the past two years, the BBMP had been issuing birth/death certificates at its 27 registration centres.
Over the past two years, the BBMP had been issuing birth/death certificates at its 27 registration centres.

If you are among those running from pillar to post to get birth or death certificates, relief may be at hand. The BBMP is planning to introduce measures to ensure that these certificates are issued within an hour of a birth or death being recorded at hospitals.

Over the past two years, the BBMP had been issuing birth/death certificates at its 27 registration centres.

BBMP officials say they have developed a unique ‘E-transfer’ software that links hospitals to these centres to help speed up the registration process.

In the planned system, hospital officials have to upload details of new births or deaths within 30 minutes of the incident. A BBMP official said this information will be immediately transferred to the registration centre. Here, the staff will be required to issue a birth or death certificate in the next half-an-hour, which will then be collected by the respective hospitals.

 

Now DDA to search for land for relocating Millennium Bus Depot

Friday, 31 January 2014 06:39 administrator
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The Hindu              31.01.2014

Now DDA to search for land for relocating Millennium Bus Depot

Special correspondent

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Thursday informed the High Court that it would search for a piece of land for allotment to the Delhi Government for building a new bus depot in place of the Millennium Bus Depot.

Counsel for the DDA gave this assurance when the Court asked it if it was not their responsibility to provide land to the Government for shifting the bus depot. The Court also observed that if the Government did not provide an alternative plot of land, thousands of buses would be parked on the road.

The Court later said that a senior DDA official who knew all the details about the matter would be present in the Court on February 19, the next date of hearing.

The land development authority had on Wednesday informed the Court that it did not have spare land for the new bus depot.

The Government has decided to dismantle the depot and shift it to another place to restore the flood pan of the Yamuna.

The Court has directed the Government to complete the shifting process within nine months.

The depot was built for a temporary period by the previous Sheila Dikshit Government at a cost of Rs. 60 crore in 2010 ahead of the Commonwealth Games for parking DTC buses during the sports event.

The Court had in 2012 directed the Delhi Government to align use of the land on which the depot was built with the Delhi Master Plan.

The Court had passed the direction while disposing of two public interest litigations challenging the construction of the depot in the ‘Yamuna river pan’. The Bench had given six months time to the Government to do the alignment.

But it failed to do it. Thereafter, a contempt petition was filed against the Government. It is pending in the Court.

 
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