Mangalore, May 22: Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim pulled up the officials of Mangalore City Corporation and other urban local bodies (ULBs) in the district over lack of progress in development works such as collection of solid waste and utilization of SFC grant funds at a review meet on Thursday.
Speaking at the progress review meeting at his office, Mr Ibrahim expressed his displeasure at the lack of progress in the door-to-door collection of solid waste in the city corporation and ULB limits in the district. The solid waste management system will be effective only if there is door-to-door collection of waste from houses every day. Daily collection of waste should be taken into consideration, he told officials from the city corporation, directing them to conduct an assessment of the impact of door-to-door collection in the wards of Mangalore city corporation.
According to the official figures, the MCC is collecting solid waste from 1,45,316 residences and 43,583 commercial buildings in the wards of the city corporation.
He also warned the officials to monitor the practice of manual scavenging in the city limits and enforce the ban on it.
Mr Ibrahim also directed the officials in each taluk to maintain the parks coming under the city corporation and various municipalities. He directed them to identify additional land necessary for the expansion of each park in the district and look into their maintenance by utilising the funds allotted to them.
Under the Vajpayee Urban Housing Scheme, out of the 510 beneficiaries approved in 2012-13, only 171 houses had been construction till date and construction of 156 houses was under progress. Out of the remaining, construction of 50 houses had not yet begun, while approvals for 133 houses had been rejected or blocked, according to the official figures.
Since the percentage of achievement in the scheme was merely 34, the deputy commissioner said that the performance was dismal. He said that the collection of water and advertisement tax that was pending should be done at the earliest, and also warned the officials of suspension upon failing to discharge their duties.
He told the concerned officials to take a serious interest in having bigger parks and look into their beautification. He further instructed the officials to get the water tested after purification under the underground drainage scheme before letting it flow into the river.
He also instructed that the cleaning of storm water drains should be completed in all taluks in view of the monsoons.
SFC grant funds
The figures showed an expenditure of Rs 6.94 crores spent towards development works undertaken in the 22.75% scheme under the SFC united grants and municipal revenue, while Rs 3.79 crores were pending. It also showed an expenditure of Rs 1.10 crores spent towards development works undertaken in the 7.25% scheme under the SFC united grants and municipal revenue, while Rs 37.06 lakhs were pending.
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