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Madikeri CMC will soon go online

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS: Madikeri CMC president P.D. Ponnappa (centre) conducting the CMC meeting in Madikeri on Saturday.

Madikeri: The Madikeri City Municipal Council (CMC) is set to go online soon. All information relating to the CMC and its functioning will be available through the Internet, and this was an attempt to reach every citizen in a transparent manner, P.D. Ponnappa, president of the CMC, said at the general meeting of the CMC held here on Saturday.

CMC Commissioner Srikanth Rao said that information on water tax payment, house tax, birth and death certificates, progress of a particular work, name of the contractor and the sum involved, date of start and completion of the works, registering complaints, RTC, and Form III (containing details of households) could be downloaded from the website.

A decision was taken to levy commercial charges on water supplied by the CMC to home stay facilities, which use large quantities of water.

Mr. Ponnappa said water would have to be used judiciously during summer and because of heavy inflow of visitors to Madikeri, home stay facilities were likely to use up huge quantity of water.

He asked the CMC engineers conduct a survey to ascertain the total number of home stay units in the CMC limits.

About the substandard quality of a few concrete roads laid recently in the city, Mr. Ponnappa said even if the road quality suffered after the inspections by the ‘third party’, both the third party officials and the CMC engineers would be held responsible. The CMC passed a resolution in this regard.

Mr. Rao said that Rs. 40 lakh had been earmarked for the beautification of the park where the Guddemane Appaiah Gowda Memorial would come up, near the Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa Circle in the city.

Steps would be taken to fence off all CMC lands in the city, including parks. Funds from the Chief Minister’s Small and Medium Town Development Programme could be utilised to develop parks.

To another question, Mr. Ponnappa said that encroachments on revenue land near the old firewood depot had been cleared. The Kannada Cultural Complex is likely to come up there in an area of one-and-a-half acres. He said that an exclusively inter-locking tile road would be laid on an experimental basis at a particular location at Dechur in the city.

A.C. Devaiah, Congress member, complained that several shops selling chicken in the city were being run without licence when the matter of issuing fresh licences in the residential areas came up for discussion.

Mr. Ponnappa ordered a survey of all such chicken shops to ascertain whether they adhered to parameters relating to sanitation, time, licence and so on.

The meeting decided not to issue water connections for house constructions from February 1. However, new water connections would be issued to newly constructed houses.

In another significant decision, the meeting decided to recommend to the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board to include four more locations in Madikeri city – Mallikarjunanagar, Putaninagar, Jyotinagar and Rajarajeshwarinagar — in the category of slums. This would be in addition to the other four existing slums in the city — Mangaladevinagar, Indiranagar, Chamundeshwarinagar and Tyagaraja Colony. Efforts would be made to upgrade the slum areas as the CMC intended to keep Madikeri a city without slums, Mr. Ponnappa said.

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