The Hindu 09.12.2011
Needs of expanded Corporation areas discussed
Data validation work for online payment of professional tax in the city will be completed in six months.
According
to a press release, the deadline for preparation of street correlation
statement for both professional and property tax in the expanded Chennai
Corporation is December 20.
A meeting was organised
on Thursday at Ripon Buildings to discuss the programmes and schemes of
the Corporation in the 200 wards. A proposal for a structured format
was made to capture all the basic information about each zone.
Corporation Commissioner P.W.C.Davidar chaired the meeting of senior
officials. The requirements of infrastructure to locate division offices
and build new ones wherever necessary were discussed.
A
pilot programme was initiated in ward 141 for door-to-door collection
of garbage and to examine the possibilities of collecting garbage
without bins. A detailed road map is being prepared and would be issued
shortly.
The meeting also discussed the need for
intensifying the collection of segregated plastics and preparing an
action for laying polymer bitumen roads using plastic wastes.