The Hindu 09.01.2010
Udupi CMC to celebrate platinum jubilee
Staff Correspondent
Poor SC/ST families to be provided with houses
Parks and public buildings to be renovated
Udupi: The Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) will take up several projects this year to mark its platinum jubilee.
Dinakar Shetty, president of the CMC, told presspersons here on Friday that pucca houses, with electricity and toilets, would be constructed for people from the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes who were living in huts. Toilets would be constructed for the economically backward people in the city.
A commercial complex would be constructed at Malpe. The CMC would establish housing colonies for civic workers, staff and officers. An e-administration project would be implemented at a cost of Rs. 5 lakh. An open-air theatre would come up at Beedinagudde, he said.
Satyamurti Hall, where the CMC general body meetings are held, would be renovated with air-conditioning. The Town Hall, Bhujanga Park and Gandhi Park would also be renovated. Members of the SC/ST communities would be covered under a medical insurance scheme, he said.
Waste management
The CMC would launch a project to segregate waste at source, on an experimental basis, in two municipal wards. People in these wards would be provided with two buckets — one for wet waste and the other for dry waste.
Water supply
Steps would be initiated to provide 24-hour water supply to all houses. At present, water was being supplied for eight to 12 hours a day.
The CMC seal would be modified to show that it was celebrating platinum jubilee year. A signboard to mark the platinum jubilee celebrations would be installed near the Kinnimulky Swagat Gopura. Three welcome arches would be erected on roads connecting Kundapur, Mangalore and Karkala, Mr. Shetty said.
Programmes
As part of these celebrations, an Udupi utsava, a beach utsava and an exhibition would be organised here, he said and added that a State-level civic convention would also be held.
Vice-president Indira Shekhar, chairman of the CMC Standing Committee Mahesh Thakur and in-charge Commissioner Nanjunda Swamy were present.
