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CPI demands formation of District Planning Committees

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Amend rules to hold indirect election to Municipal chairperson's post: Viswanathan

Puducherry: R. Viswanathan, MLA and member of the National Council of the Communist Party of India (CPI), has called upon Chief Minister N. Rangasamy to constitute District Planning Committees for the municipal councils in Puducherry to ensure that development schemes in wards were implemented without delay.

He told newsmen here on Tuesday that though the Bills relating to constitution of the committees for each of the four municipal councils in Puducherry and its outlying regions were already passed in the Assembly, no follow-up action had been taken so far to establish them.

Coordination panel

He wanted the Puducherry Municipal Council to devote its attention to provision of amenities and address the grievances of the people. There should be a change of attitude on the part of the council's chairperson B. Sridevi. A coordination committee comprising councillors of parties attached to the Democratic Progressive Alliance should be formed to ensure smooth functioning of the council.

Mr. Viswanathan demanded that rules be amended to ensure that chairmen or chairpersons were elected indirectly instead of the present system.

`Matter of concern'

A. Anbalagan, MLA and secretary of Puducherry State unit of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, said it was a matter of concern that almost all meetings of the Puducherry Municipal Council formed in the wake of the June 2006 polls were marked by chaos.

Speaking to presspersons, he said the Oulgaret Municipal Council had been carrying out its work without any problem. "If the Puducherry Municipal Council could not mend its ways, the Government could intervene and dissolve it and hold fresh polls."

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