The Hindu 30.07.2009
MCR move to be part of ‘Vision City’
B.V.S. Bhaskar
| Full-fledged website to be launched soon, says Commissioner |
Rajahmundry: The Municipal Corporation of Rajahmundry (MCR) is making serious efforts to be part of the ‘Vision City’, a Central Government scheme. Municipal corporations of Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada have been included in the scheme in the State. It is hoped that MCR too will be bestowed the status at least by next year.
As a first step in that direction, a full-fledged website – www.rajahmundrycorporation.com – would be developed with the help of historians, Municipal Commissioner K. Manik Raj told The Hindu on Wednesday. The website would officially be launched on August 15 or during the council meeting on August 22, the first after he assumed office. The website would aim at enhancing accountability of every department and provide every citizen access to information pertaining to issues concerning them. Matters concerning all departments will be put on the website. Information pertaining to plan approvals, BPS, new GOs, births and deaths, tap connections, taxation, revenue, billing, historical places and what not, all would be made available at the click of the mouse, the Commissioner added.
Six projects
Mr. Manik Raj said that under JNNURM three places were selected under Vision City hoped that MCR would get the status by next year.
As part of the efforts, the corporation would also undertake six projects under public private partnership mode. The first such project would be development of a scatting ring in 1,800 sft vacant land opposite P.V. Narasimha Rao park on Godavari tank bund for which Expression of Interest was called. The other schemes include energy conservation, streamlining rainwater, collection of garbage by ITC, construction of Sulabh Complexes and distribution of 50 wireless sets to sanitary inspectors.
