Speaking at the monthly general meeting of Udupi Municipality, Mr Bhat, who is also the president of `Nagarashraya' Committee, which is supposed to work for allotting land for the landless, said that the administration has received over 1,000 applications for land in Udupi CMC limits.
“We identified a land in Kodankooru for constructing apartments. In that land we can construct as many as 240 flats. After giving away those flats, we can take up some more projects. Even if we purchase private lands in the city limits, we cannot distribute them at an affordable cost to the landless”, he said.
Meanwhile members of AIAWC staged a dharna in front of the Municipality demanding land and homes for them, under the government schemes.
Councilor Sandhya S Nayak alleged that a multistoried unauthorized building has come up in Laxmindra Nagara, without leaving setback.
Mr Bhat said that if the officials had stopped the building 3 months back, it would not have come up and now it is difficult to stop. He instructed the officials to stop the violations by the builders in the beginning. “Or else, they will approach us (politicians) for influence. We can't say no to our voters and influence the officials'', he said.
Rammohan, a waste management expert, made a presentation at the meeting to produce power from the solid waste. TAPMI has come forward to purchase the power generated from the solid waste here, he added.
One Prakash Alagawadi, a water management expert said that they have a project to save the waste of water and increase the collection of water bill. CMC Commissioner Gokuldas Nayak said that though the municipal pumping center has a 25 million ltrs pumping capacity, municipality could collect bills for only 14 million ltrs of water.
CMC President Kiran Kumar presided over the programme.
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