The Hindu 17.08.2009
Project to benchmark service level of Tiruchi Corporation
S. Ganesan
Project to help improve civic services in Tiruchi
Work is expected to be over in next few months
TIRUCHI: The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), an international organisation offering technical consultation, training, and information services for capacity building and support to local governments in the implementation of sustainable development, has taken up a project to benchmark the service level of the Tiruchi Corporation.
The benchmarking would be done for four major services of the Corporation – water supply, solid waste management, waste water treatment and storm water drains. The assessment would be carried out in a standardised form in terms of the existing infrastructure, the system of delivery, quality of the service and the percentage of coverage.
Tiruchi is one of the 25 cities selected across the country under the project taken up by the Union Ministry of Urban Development and the Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank. The Udhagamandalam Municipality is the other urban local body selected for the benchmarking in the State.
The ICLEI has been appointed as a consultant for carrying out the benchmarking for both the cities in Tamil Nadu, Soumya Chaturvedula, Manager, ICLEI, South Asia, Southern Centre, told The Hindu, here on Friday.
She along with Ashish Rao Ghorpade, Manager, South Asia, Southern Centre, and C. Sellakrishnan, Project Coordinator, ICLEI, held preliminary discussions with the Mayor S.Sujatha, Commissioner T.T.Balsamy and other officials on Thursday and Friday to discuss the modalities of the collection of data for the project.
The project is expected to be completed over the next few months.
