Elections of MCC standing committees held

Mangalore, March 11: Chairpersons and members of four standing committees of Mangalore City Corporation were elected unanimously on Friday at meeting hall of MCC here.

Mayor Praveen conducted the elections for the four committees namely Taxation, Finance and Appeals, Town planning and Improvement, Public health, education and social justice and Accounts. Each committee will have five ruling party members and two opposition members.

Taxation, Finance and Appeals Standing Committee: Corporator Sharath Kumar will chair the committee while members include two congress corporators Nagendra Kumar and Gretta Rebello and five BJP corporators Sarojini Kotian, Surekha Srinivas, James D'Souza and Vijaya Kumar Shetty.

Town planning and Improvement Standing Committee: Premananda Shetty (Chairman) Bhaskar K and Harinath, (both Congress) P Mohan Kumar, Bhaskerchandra Shetty, Shakunthaka D Karkera, Jayananda Anchan (BJP).

Public health, education and social justice Standing Committee: Yashavanth Meenakaliya (Chairman), KBK Vijayalaxmin and Navin R D'Souza (Congress), Ashwin Kumar, Revathi K, Amitha Kala, Sumithra Kariya (BJP).

Accounts Standing Committee (Works Committee): M Rajashri (Chairperson) Mamatha Shenoy and Guljar Banu (Congress) Ranganath C Kini, Santhosh Kumar, K Madhukiran, Prema Muralidhara (BJP).

MCC Commissioner Dr KN Vijaya Prakash and Deputy Mayor Geetha Nayak were present.

Roopa D. Bangera, Diwakar, Sudhir Shetty, and Shanta R were the standing committee chair persons during the term of Rajani Dugganna, the ex mayor of MCC.