M Prathap

Now that the northeast monsoon has set in, the city corporation has sped up the work to clear the minor storm water drains in residential areas, where the threat of waterlogging is looming large.

The city corporation will launch online-based building plan approval within two months, corporation commissioner M Prathap said.Works are under way to shift to a complete online system, he said.Other civic bodies have already introduced the system, a corporation official said.

The city corporation has chosen Vellalore to establish a construction and demolition waste plant at a cost of 6 crore, corporation commissioner M Prathap said.The state government has given its approval for the plant.

Thanks to the property tax revision, the city corporation is inching close to the total property tax collected last year within eight months of the financial year.

Corporation commissioner M Prathap, who inspected smart city projects on Monday, instructed the contractors to complete works on time.The commissioner inspected works carried out at Valankulam and Periyakulam at a cost of 67.86 crore and 62.

coimbatore the municipal corporation is planning to set up a construction and coimbatore the civic body is looking for a suitable place including one at vellalore to set up the unit at a cost of 2cr corporation commissioner M Prathap said “collection points will be set up in each of the five zones from where the waste will be shifted to the processing centre we are studying about the products that can be manufactured using the waste including paver blocks.

Now that the northeast monsoon has set in, the city corporation has sped up the work to clear the minor storm water drains in residential areas, where the threat of waterlogging is looming large.

The municipal corporation plans to execute the underground drainage project at Vadavalli, Veerakeralam and Kavundampalayam soon as the Union government has given nod to carry out the work at a cost of 300 crore under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut) 2.

AIADMK councillors on Monday urged the municipal corporation to complete the integrated bus terminal work at Vellalore, instead of shifting the facility to another location.

Traders from the Thiyagi Kumaran market submitted a petition to the city corporation on Tuesday seeking the postponement of revision of rent.

The revenue department of the city corporation has issued notices to more than 42,000 defaulters asking them to pay their property tax arrears. The defaulters owe the corporation a total of around 60 crore .

The city corporation has started equipping garbage collection vehicles with the Global Positioning System (GPS) to prevent the misuse of the same.According to corporation commissioner M Prathap, 55 trucks and 250 mini trucks are used for collecting garbage.

The city corporation has sent a proposal to the Commissionerate of Municipal Administration to purchase machinery for the micro composting centres (MCCs) and deploy manpower to operate them at a cost 2.5 crore, corporation commissioner M Prathap said on Saturday.

As the iron foot overbridge on Palakkad Main Road at Kuniyamuthur remains unused, the city corporation, last week, began the works to relocate it some 500m away near a government higher secondary school. The civic body installed the overbridge at a cost of 1.25 crore in 2019.

A gathering of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers at Corporation Primary School ground on Devenga High School Road on Sunday kicked up a row with pro-Tamil outfits opposing the event.

Poor maintenance of toilets at Periyakulam lake, which is developed under the smart city scheme, is causing lots of hardship for the visitors.