The Hindu       26.08.2014 

Mandya City Municipal Council to get a new administrative building

The general public will no longer have to jostle in the cramped Mandya City Municipal Council (CMC) office here as the authority has decided to construct a full-fledged building, with all modern amenities, on a sprawling site at a cost of Rs. 5 crore.

The CMC, which has 35 wards, has been functioning in a decades-old building off Bangalore-Mysore highway here. Dearth of space and parking lot in the existing building is causing inconvenience to tax payers.

As Hassan has been developing rapidly, the municipal council has realised the need to construct a new building for it, adjacent to the existing one.

Council hall

Foundation stone laying ceremony for the proposed building is likely to be held on November 1 and the CMC is busy preparing a detailed project report (DPR) to be submitted to the Department of Municipal Administration.

Discussion held

The CMC had already discussed with the officials concerned at the Department of Municipal Administration about constructing a new building at a cost of Rs. 5 crore, N.M. Shashikumar, Commissioner of Mandya CMC, here on Sunday.

He said that a new building for CMC had become a necessity as Mandya was one of the fast developing towns.

“The civic authority needs a bigger building to cope with the increase in workforce and administration,” Mr. Shashikumar said.

Council hall

The new building will have a cellar for parking of vehicles. The first floor will have offices of the president, vide-president, Commissioner, standing committee presidents, officers of municipal engineers, town planning, administrative officials, computer section and a few other divisions.

Shifting

The second floor will have a modern council hall with a capacity of 100-150 seats for councillors, press box and officers’ gallery, Mr. Shashikumar said.

All offices of the CMC would be shifted to the new complex once the construction was completed. However, the construction would take 18-24 months. Later, the municipal council would demolish the existing building for constructing the new one.

Work on the construction of the new building would be taken up immediately after the receipt of CMC gets the funds. The proposed CMC building would have modern amenities and fire-fighting equipment, an officer at the Department of Public Works, Ports, Inland and Water Transport (PWD), told The Hindu.

The CMC officials would collect opinions/suggestions from the PWD, Department of Fire and Emergency Services and other departments before completing the DPR.