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Thiruvananthapuram
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 10. Participants in a discussion held on Wednesday on converting the capital city into a metro called for a political consensus on development of the city. Inaugurating the discussion, the Mayor, J. Chandra, said the Government move to delink three panchayats from the Corporation would undermine the city's development potential. She called for collective lobbying to expedite development projects and achieve metro status for the city. The chairman of the Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority (Trida), P.K. Venugopal, alleged that the previous Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government had been guided solely by electoral politics in merging the five suburban panchayats with the city. The Constitution had provisions for a metro region without attaching panchayats to a city, he said. "The law does not stipulate a minimum requirement of a 10-lakh population for an urban area to be declared a metro. The Governor can declare a region comprising one or more cities or municipalities or panchayats as a metro", he said.
Priority projects
The BJP leader, B.K. Sekhar, said successive State Governments led by the LDF and United Democratic Front had failed to expedite priority projects like development of the international airport and setting up of a High Court Bench. The discussion was organised by the Federation of Residents Associations, Thiruvananthapuram and the Kesari Memorial Journalists Trust.
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