The Hindu 28.03.2013
Rs.3.38-cr. deficit budget presented for Tirunelveli
A slew of measures for corporation schoolchildren.
Presenting the Corporation’s Rs.3.38-crore deficit
budget for 2013 – 2014 on Wednesday, Mayor Vijila Sathyananth announced a
slew of measures for the benefit of children studying in the schools
being administered by the urban local body.
As per
the announcements made by Ms. Vijila, all Corporation Higher Secondary
Schools will get smart classrooms and napkin vending machines, computers
with projectors and medical monitoring system for the corporation
schoolchildren. She earmarked Rs. 75 lakh for the purchase of computers
with projectors.
She said the Kallanai Corporation
Higher Secondary School, Corporation Higher Secondary School at
Meenakshipuram, Rani Anna Corporation Higher Secondary School at Pettai
and Quaid-E-Millath Corporation Higher Secondary School at Melapalayam
would get the smart classrooms on an outlay of Rs.1.25 crore.
Napkin-vending
machines would be installed at the cost of Rs.6 lakh during this fiscal
and incinerators established in schools. Ms. Vijila introduced ‘Amma
Medical Monitoring Activities (AMMA)’ for schoolchildren, who would be
screened every month by the City Health Officer and appropriate medical
assistance rendered based on the findings and annual dental and eye
camps would be conducted in all Corporation schools.
Each
student studying in the Corporation school would be insured as the
urban civic body would pay the annual premium of Rs. 25 per student. A
full-fledged counselling centre would be established in every
Corporation school.
An auditorium on an outlay of Rs. 1 crore would be established at Kallanai Corporation Higher Secondary School.
Apart
from this, steps would be taken to bring drinking water to the
Corporation from Ariyanayagipuram on an outlay of Rs. 290 crore and the
areas yet to be covered by the underground drainage scheme would get the
sewerage scheme under the National River Water Conservation Programme.
New
administrative buildings for Melapalayam and Thatchanallur Zones, tiled
pedestrians’ path between Sulochana Mudaliar Bridge to Murugankurichi
Signal, apartments for homeless conservancy workers of Tirunelveli
Corporation, a facelift to the Tirunelveli Junction, Vaeinthaankulam and
Palayamkottai bus-stands with additional facilities, night shelter at
Sindupoondurai for the homeless and the elderly were some of the new
facilities the Corporation plans to pursue during this financial year.
LED, CFL facility
Ms.
Vijila announced that the existing streetlights would be replaced by
the LED and CFL bulbs under the ongoing ‘Energy Efficiency Project’.
“This will be created under ‘Build, Own, Operate and Transfer’ mode,” the Mayor said.