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Corporation officials instructed to give report on water scheme on weekly basis

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The Hindu                26.04.2013

Corporation officials instructed to give report on water scheme on weekly basis

spot assessment:Commissioner of Municipal Administration Chandrakant B. Kamble discussing with officials the progress of construction of water tank at Renga Nagar in Tiruchi.
spot assessment:Commissioner of Municipal Administration Chandrakant B. Kamble discussing with officials the progress of construction of water tank at Renga Nagar in Tiruchi.

‘Put up signboards on temporary drinking water tanks and telephone numbers’.

Commissioner of Municipal Administration Chandrakant B.Kamble has instructed officials of the Tiruchirapalli City Corporation to monitor and report on a weekly basis the progress in the execution of the new drinking water augmentation scheme for the city.

Mr. Kamble, who inspected the progress made in the execution of the Rs. 221.42-crore drinking water scheme and various other development works in the city on Wednesday and Thursday, instructed officials to put up signboards indicating the time of filling the temporary drinking water tanks kept in various parts of the city as part of the drought-relief measure.

The telephone numbers of officials concerned should be listed so that residents could contact them if there was a water problem.

He visited Indira Nagar and Kamal Nagar where such tanks had been placed and Jaganathapuram where a borewell had been sunk at a cost of Rs. 3.59 crore in the city.

Mr. Kamble inspected the collector well and sump of the new drinking water scheme, being implemented with financial assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, at the Coleroon river bed and the inter-connection works on linking the pumping mains and the distribution lines at Golden Rock.

He inspected some of the drinking water overhead tanks which were yet to be completed and told the officials to expedite the works.

Sites

Mr. Kamble visited some of the proposed sites for setting up an “Amma canteen” at Amma Mandapam in the city and the modern toilet complex put up by the corporation at Veereswaram.

He held consultations with Mayor A. Jaya and Corporation Commissioner V.P. Thandapani.

 

Pet shops to shell out Rs. 5,000 for trade licence

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The Hindu                26.04.2013

Pet shops to shell out Rs. 5,000 for trade licence

Staff Reporter

Trade licence fee for pet shops in the city will be Rs. 5,000. The Corporation Council, in its next meeting on Friday, will make a decision on including pet shops in the trade licence net and take steps to regularise such shops. So far, the shops were not covered under trade licence net.

The pet shops include those selling exotic breeds of dogs, cats, birds and fish. The application for trade licence will be scrutinised by Corporation officials. A copy of the application for trade licence by pet shops should also be sent to the Animal Welfare Board of India. The traders will have to renew the trade licence every two years by remitting a fee of Rs.1,000.

After notification by the government, all shops selling food products and other material for pets would also have to remit trade licence fee. Such a shop with an area less than 1,000 sq. ft. will remit a fee of Rs.2,000. The shops with area greater that 1,000 sq ft will remit a trade licence fee of Rs.5,000.

The inclusion of pet shops in the list of trades will reinforce existing mechanisms of ensuring minimum standards of sanitation, drainage, ventilation, heating, cooling, humidity, special and enclosure requirements, nutrition, medical treatment and methods of operations.

The unregulated breeding of pets has contributed to the rise in stray dog menace. Many of the breeders are found to abandon pets including dogs after finding them commercially unviable. Over five hundred pet shops have emerged as a source of civic problems.

 

Held for running meat stalls

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The Hindu                25.04.2013

Held for running meat stalls

Staff Reporter

The Corporation health officials caught four persons for operating meat stalls in the city on Wednesday in violation of the government order banning the sale of meat on the day in the wake of Mahavir Jayanthi.

City Health Officer R. Selvakumar told reporters that a total of 30 kg of chicken and 50 kg of chevon kept License cancellation

Dr. Selvakumar said that steps would be taken to cancel the licences of the four shops for functioning on the day.

 


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