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Prominent southern suburbs suffer too

Thursday, 09 December 2010 05:50 administrator
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The Deccan Chronicle  09.12.2010

Prominent southern suburbs suffer too

Dec. 8: The state government boasts of bringing in more funds to empower local bodies to make Greater Chennai a better place to live in but, in reality, the public suffer without even basic amenities.

Three prominent suburbs, Alandur, Pallavaram and Tambaram, were promised better waste management facility, underground drainage connection and undisrupted power supply a few years ago. All these promises and the resolutions passed in the local body council meetings remain on paper.

“There is no proper compost yard for the southern suburbs and the local bodies have been shamelessly dumping waste either on marshland or a water body,” Mr D. Vijayakumar, a civic activist based in Tambaram, alleged.

Whenever there is a sewer block or the septic tank is full, the Tambaram municipal staff do not attend to the problem. If the promised underground drainage network is completed on time, there is no need for the public to worry about septic tanks, he added.

According to Pallavaram municipal sources, underground drainage connection and modern integrated compost centre at Venkatamangalam were proposed four years back, but both projects are yet to cross the half-way mark. Though the underground drainage work is progressing at snail’s pace, the compost waste centre project, estimated to cost `45 crore, has come to a halt due to contractual problems, sources added.

In Alandur, the recently-installed pumping station periodically fails. Much to the dismay of the public, the state electricity department has shot down the underground electric cable proposal for Alandur citing huge expenditure and lack of funds.

When contacted, Alandur municipal chairman Durai Velu said the local body has sought the expertise of Metro Water to operate the pumping station and sewer faults will be rectified soon. The locality will get new underground electric cables once the city limits expand, he added.

Tambaram municipal commissioner N.S. Prema assured that the abandoned compost yard project would be re-started within a fortnight.

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Census training workshop held for top officials

Thursday, 09 December 2010 04:35 administrator
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The Hindu      09.12.2010

Census training workshop held for top officials

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The top officials of Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts will be charge officers


S. Gopalakrishnan, Director of Census Operations addressing a training session on Census 2011 at the Collectorate in Vellore on Tuesday. C. Rajendran, Collector is in the picture.

VELLORE: The Director of Census Operations, Tamil Nadu, S. Gopalakrishnan, conducted on Tuesday a training workshop for the Commissioner of the Vellore Corporation, and Commissioners of Municipalities and tahsildars in Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts.

They would function as charge officers for the 2011 Census on the methodology for enumerating the people of the two districts during the second stage of the census to be undertaken from February 9 to 28, 2011. These charge officers would, later, conduct training for the actual enumerators.

Mr. Gopalakrishnan said that the house listing and housing census and the creation of the National Population Register, which formed the first stage of Census 2011 was undertaken between June 1 and July 15, 2010. A total of 1.50 lakh enumerators would be involved in the actual census operations to be undertaken next year throughout Tamil Nadu while 27 lakh enumerators would be on the job throughout India.

He said that a detailed questionnaire has been prepared for eliciting details from the members of the households during the census.

He requested the public to cooperate with the Census staff in giving information since the Census formed the basis for the delimitation of constituencies and for formulating the policies of the Government of India on matters concerning implementation of literacy programmes and providing employment opportunities to the people.

The Director said that once the details have been collected in the format, the signature of the member of the household would be obtained on the questionnaire and a sticker pasted outside the house to indicate the completion of enumeration in a particular house.

Vellore District Collector C. Rajendran presided over the training programme. E. Saravanavelraj, District Revenue Officer, Udayakumar, Personal Assistant (General) to the Collector, K.R. Selvaraj, Commissioner of Vellore Corporation, T.V. Manjunatha, District Forest Officer, Vellore, Rajendran, DFO, Tiruvannamalai, and Ranganathan and Srinivasan, Census Coordinators participated in the meeting.

 

Committee inspects Corporation Zoo at VOC Park

Thursday, 09 December 2010 04:24 administrator
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The Hindu      09.12.2010

Committee inspects Corporation Zoo at VOC Park

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Coimbatore: The Corporation Committee of elected members on Education, Parks and Play Grounds inspected the Corporation Zoo at VOC Park Grounds on Wednesday.

The committee led by its Chairman R. Kalyanasundaram went round the zoological park.

The inspection comes in the wake of the reports about damage to the civil structures and hardship faced by the animals kept there especially from crows and diseases.

The Corporation is already on the job of getting the zoo shifted to a spacious place and is already on the process of finalising the place and intimating the Central Zoological Authority which has served a notice on the Corporation. However, to ensure the safety and comfort of the animals kept there, the committee inspected the park and identified areas that required immediate attention.

 
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