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Local body by-elections on September 18

Thursday, 07 August 2014 06:00 administrator
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The Hindu       07.08.2014

Local body by-elections on September 18

The State Election Commission has announced by-election to vacant posts in local bodies on September 18.

A release from the district administration said that election to the vacancies in Pollachi Municipality (Ward 31), Sulur Town Panchayat (chairman), Sirumugai, No. 24 Veerapandi, Kottur, Sarcar Samakulam and Vettaikaranpudur Town Panchayats, Annur Panchayat Union (Ward 7), Kinathukadavu Panchayat Union (Ward 12), Sulur Panchayat Union (Ward 7 and 12) and 24 panchayat would be held.

Persons keen on contesting the election could file their nomination till August 13. The next day, officials concerned would take up the scrutiny of nominations.

Counting

The last date for withdrawal of nomination was August 16. The counting of votes would take place on September 20.

The elections were being held for the aforementioned posts as they fell vacant prior to April 2014, the release added.

 

Councillors seek expansion of Salem corporation limits

Friday, 25 July 2014 11:09 administrator
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The Times of India       25.07.2014 

Councillors seek expansion of Salem corporation limits

SALEM: All councillors, including deputy mayor M Natesan, appealed to the Salem City Municipal Corporation mayor to expand corporation limits based on population as well as to develop the city further. "There are 60 wards in the corporation and they have to be bifurcated based on population density as many small wards have more population than the bigger wards. So we request the mayor to send a detailed proposal to the state government to break the bigger wards," Natesan said. Mayor S Soundappan who heard the councillors' request said that he would send a detailed proposal seeking government's nod in this issue.

SCMC's monthly meeting was held at hanging garden in the city on Thursday. Mayor Soundappan headed the meeting while corporation commissioner K R Selvaraj welcomed the gathering. Zonal presidents T Thiyagarajan (Suramangalam), K Madeshwaran (Hasthampatti), V Jayaprakash (Ammapet) and M Shanmugam (Kondalampatti) accused officials of not informing zonal presidents while conducting mass cleaning drives in the wards. "The officials have been conducting meetings on their own. They do not discuss anything with zonal presidents or the ward councillors concerned. They do not inform us about any mass cleaning programme," they said. Commissioner Selvaraj said that he would ask all officials to keep councillors and zonal presidents informed in future.

"Most SCMC officials put on record that cleaning programme has been carried out without actually doing anything. So we want to check each record related to that scheme," they said the commissioner agreed to produce the records.

Opposition party leader Buvaneswari Murali complained of water logging and the mayor assured of taking action. Hasthampatti zonal president Matheswaran sought new roads to be built in areas where underground drainage work have been carried out. In the meeting the mayor expressed hope of developing Salem city further with the help of grants from the central as well as state government.

Last Updated on Friday, 25 July 2014 11:29
 

Corporation areas to be extended

Friday, 25 July 2014 09:44 administrator
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The Hindu       25.07.2014

Corporation areas to be extended

High drama prevailed at the monthly Corporation council meeting here on Thursday when two zone Chairmen claim that no mass cleaning works were being carried out in the wards in the afternoon, but this was refuted by most of the councillors.

As soon as the council meeting began, the issue of inadequate conservancy workers for clearing garbage every day was raised by Ammapet Zone Chairman Jayaprakash and this was followed by Hasthampatti Zone Chairman Madheswaran.

City Health Officer K.V. Arjun Kumar said that desilting of drains and clearing of garbage were carried out in the afternoon hours in each ward.

But both the Chairmen said that no works were being carried out.

Corporation Commissioner K.A. Selvaraj said that work status reports were obtained from Assistant Commissioners every day and councillors could verify the reports.

Mayor S. Soundappan sought to know from all the 60 councillors whether works were being carried out or not. Most of the councillors said that works were being carried out regularly and the issue was settled.

Deputy Mayor N. Natesan wanted his ward with a population of more than 28,000 people to be trifurcated.

The Mayor said that all wards would soon be revamped and panchayats located near Corporation limits would be annexed.

The present number of 60 wards would be increased, he added.

Resolutions were passed to purchase compactor bins at a cost of Rs. 27.60 lakh, dig 40 borewells, create rainwater harvesting system at a cost of Rs. 1.28 crore and purchase gadgets for conservancy workers at a cost of Rs. 6 lakh.

Mayor says that the number of wards in the Corporation would be raised soon

Last Updated on Friday, 25 July 2014 09:55
 
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