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Corporator team visits Trivandrum

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: The team of corporators from Vijayawada that has been visiting various cities as part of a study tour visited Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation on Tuesday.

TMC Mayor J.S. Babu explained to the visiting team how the Kerala Water Board was supplying water round the clock to people. The KWB was collecting Rs. 1,000 a year for every public tap and the TMC would bear all the expenses on public water taps. While the consumers would have to pay Rs. 2.5 for a litre of water for domestic connections, Rs. 4.5 was being collected from non-domestic connections, he said.

The TMC had entrusted the responsibility of collecting garbage to 68 self-help groups in the city. Every household would have to pay Rs. 30 a month towards garbage collection charges.

Mr. Babu said the TMC was managing 20 hospitals and 93 schools, besides eight complexes and an equal number of markets.

According to a statement from the Mayor's office, Thiruvananthapuram Mayor said a City Development Plan was prepared and project proposals to the tune of Rs. 700 crores were prepared under the JNNURM, he said.

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