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‘Re-consider parking fee increase'

Monday, 12 April 2010 04:33 administrator
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The Hindu 12.04.2010

‘Re-consider parking fee increase'

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COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Consumer Cause has opposed the increase in the parking fee for two-wheelers at the bus stands of the Coimbatore Corporation in the city.

Secretary of the consumer body K. Kathirmathiyon has said in a letter to Corporation Commissioner Anhsul Mishra that the increase, effective on April 1, this year, was too steep for the people who used the parking lots.

Till March 31, the fee was Rs.5 for 24 hours. It had now been revised at Rs.5 for only six hours. Hence, one had to pay Rs.20 as parking fee for a day. This amounted to a 400 per cent increase.

Many people commuted to Coimbatore for work from far away places in the district. After work, they parked their vehicles between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. at these lots and boarded buses to reach their homes. They took the two-wheelers again the following morning, around 9 a.m., to get to their places of work. Earlier, they had to pay only Rs.5 as parking fee. Now they should pay Rs.15.00 for 12 hours to 13 hours.

The Corporation should reconsider the increase, the consumer activist said in the letter.

Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 04:36
 

Otteri urban forest to be refurbished

Monday, 12 April 2010 04:30 administrator
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The Hindu 12.04.2010

Otteri urban forest to be refurbished

Staff Reporter

Photo: K.V.SRINIVASAN

Mayor M. Subramanian at the herbal park in Otteri on Sunday. —

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation will refurbish the Otteri urban forest and herbal park at a cost of Rs.1 crore, said Mayor M.Subramanian. Inspecting the herbal park on Sunday, Mr. Subramanian said that the renovated urban forest would be thrown open to public in November 2010 and be one of the spots for entertainment and walking in north Chennai.

The herbal park would have 5,500 sq metre pathway in an area of 10.39 acre. More than 4,000 trees and shrubs belonging to tropical dry evergreen forest are being grown by the Corporation.

The trees and shrubs grown in the park are indigenous species of the coromandel coast and have medicinal properties. The trees and shrubs have thick dark green foliage throughout the year. Around 300 indigenous species of the Coromandel Coast are used medicinally.

The Chennai Corporation is raising the trees on a land that was once a garbage dump in Otteri. Neem, peepal, lemon, jamun, Indian gooseberry and other tropical dry evergreen trees are grown here. Vilvam, magizham, arali, adathoda, nochi, vengai, thoothuvalai and nithyakalyani are the Tamil names of some of the species in the herbal park.

 

 

Local body representatives honoured

Friday, 09 April 2010 04:53 administrator
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The Hindu 09.04.2010

Local body representatives honoured

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TIRUNELVELI: Collector M. Jayaraman honoured local body representatives in appreciation of role played by them in rehabilitating child labourers by rescuing them and admitting them in special schools being run by National Child Labour Project.

As employing children below the age of 14 is a punishable offence, the children rescued from business establishments are being admitted to special schools before being shifted to regular schools. In Tirunelveli district, a total of 4,596 children have been rehabilitated and another 4,839 children given life and vocational education.

Tirunelveli Corporation councillors S.V. Suresh (ward 4), Pon. Thangaraj (ward 5), Jebarani Kennedy (ward 21), S. Pandikumar (ward 26) and Balasubramanian (ward 53), K.K.C. Prabhakara Pandian of Ambasamudram municipality, Radhakrishnan of Veeravanallur town panchayat, Esakki Pandi of Kallidaikurichi town panchayat, Murugan Subramanian of Manimuthar town panchayat and Shanmugavel of Mannaarkovil village panchayat received the mementoes from the Collector.

Last Updated on Friday, 09 April 2010 04:59
 
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