The Hindu 26.08.2014
Mandya City Municipal Council to get a new administrative building
Foundation stone laying ceremony for proposed building slated for November 1
The general public will no longer have to jostle in the
cramped Mandya City Municipal Council (CMC) office here as the authority
has decided to construct a full-fledged building, with all modern
amenities, on a sprawling site at a cost of Rs. 5 crore.
The
CMC, which has 35 wards, has been functioning in a decades-old building
off Bangalore-Mysore highway here. Dearth of space and parking lot in
the existing building is causing inconvenience to tax payers.
As
Hassan has been developing rapidly, the municipal council has realised
the need to construct a new building for it, adjacent to the existing
one.
Council hall
Foundation
stone laying ceremony for the proposed building is likely to be held on
November 1 and the CMC is busy preparing a detailed project report
(DPR) to be submitted to the Department of Municipal Administration.
Discussion held
The
CMC had already discussed with the officials concerned at the
Department of Municipal Administration about constructing a new building
at a cost of Rs. 5 crore, N.M. Shashikumar, Commissioner of Mandya CMC,
here on Sunday.
He said that a new building for CMC had become a necessity as Mandya was one of the fast developing towns.
“The civic authority needs a bigger building to cope with the increase in workforce and administration,” Mr. Shashikumar said.
Council hall
The
new building will have a cellar for parking of vehicles. The first
floor will have offices of the president, vide-president, Commissioner,
standing committee presidents, officers of municipal engineers, town
planning, administrative officials, computer section and a few other
divisions.
Shifting
The
second floor will have a modern council hall with a capacity of 100-150
seats for councillors, press box and officers’ gallery, Mr. Shashikumar
said.
All offices of the CMC would be shifted to the
new complex once the construction was completed. However, the
construction would take 18-24 months. Later, the municipal council would
demolish the existing building for constructing the new one.
Work
on the construction of the new building would be taken up immediately
after the receipt of CMC gets the funds. The proposed CMC building would
have modern amenities and fire-fighting equipment, an officer at the
Department of Public Works, Ports, Inland and Water Transport (PWD),
told
The Hindu.
The CMC officials would collect opinions/suggestions
from the PWD, Department of Fire and Emergency Services and other
departments before completing the DPR.