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Shimoga City Corporation prepares scheme to utilise conservancy lanes

Monday, 22 September 2014 06:31 administrator

The Hindu 22.09.2014

Shimoga City Corporation prepares scheme to utilise conservancy lanes

Authorities plan to convert such lanes into parking slots

The Shimoga City Corporation has prepared a detailed project report on how to utilise the conservancy lanes to provide civic amenities like parking slots and constructing shops to accommodate street vendors.

There are 176 conservancy lanes in Shimoga and their total length is 70 km. It is a known fact that many multi-storeyed buildings have been constructed in the city by violating the norms related to construction in a flagrant manner. As many such buildings have not reserved space for parking, the vehicles are being parked in a haphazard manner along Nehru Road, and roads in Tilak Nagar, Durgigudi and other commercial areas, resulting in traffic jams. The street vendors operating in Shimoga have compounded the problem.

To address this issue, a food court was developed in the conservancy lane between Durgigudi and Tilak Nagar locality here in November 2011. The mobile canteens operating along the Kamala Nehru College Road were shifted to the food court. The shifting of the mobile canteens resulted in the free flow of vehicles there. The project evoked good response from the owners of mobile canteens and the general public. Another conservancy lane adjacent to Tilak Nagar has been developed into a parking slot, which is likely to become operational shortly.

Encouraged by the response the food court had evoked, the city corporation has planned to convert other conservancy lanes into parking slots in commercial areas of the city, where the traffic density is high. It has been planned to convert conservancy lanes in Tilak Nagar, Park Extension, Durgigudi and Gandhi Nagar into taxi stands.

A.R. Ravi, Commissioner of city corporation, said that public-private partnership model would be adopted to develop the conservancy lanes. A private jewellery outlet operating in Savarlane has come forward to join hands with the city corporation in developing a conservancy lane here into a parking slot. In future, the city corporation wants to construct stalls in the conservancy lanes and shift street vendors engaged in selling fruits and vegetables there.

The rent collected from the occupants of these stalls and the fee collected at parking slots would be used for the maintenance of these facilities, he added.

During a recent visit of Minister for Urban Development Vinay Kumar Sorake to Shimoga, members of the city corporation had submitted a memorandum to him, requesting the State government to release grants for the development of conservancy lanes.

The Minister had responded positively for the request. He also visited the food court in the conservancy lane between Durgigudi and Tilak Nagar locality and expressed happiness over the facilities there.

No space reserved in multi-storeyed buildings in the commercial areas in Shimoga

Public-private partnership model likely to be adopted in the development of conservancy lanes

PMC in haste to relocate vendors to footpaths: NSCC

Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:16 administrator

The Times of India 27.08.2014

PMC in haste to relocate vendors to footpaths: NSCC

PUNE: Members of the town vending committee appointed by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to facilitate and implement the National Policy on Urban Street Vendors have alleged that the civic body was being hasty in relocating hawkers to footpaths, despite opposition from citizens.

The National Society for Clean Cities (NSCC) has four members on the town vending panel. NSCC president Satish Khot has said in a letter to the municipal commissioner, "We notice that the PMC is being rather hasty in relocating hawkers to existing footpaths (even if they are wide)

. You are well aware that the roads and streets of the city are already overburdened with unmanageable traffic. Most parts of old Pune have almost no footpaths or parking spaces. Encroachments have already heavily eaten into the space on footpaths, even without relocating vendors. Taking into account the growing population and the need of wider footpaths ten years later, footpaths should be the last option to relocate hawkers."

The NSCC has demanded that the PMC should instead take urgent steps to acquire amenity spaces and open plots as per the development plan of 1987. "The existing ?ota' markets/shops need to be utilized first. At present, most of the ?ota' markets are full of illegal occupants, and the hawkers are pushed back on roads. The PMC must remove these illegal occupants," the society has said.

It added that some PMC properties have been allotted to organizations that conduct activities that are not beneficial or essential to citizens. These properties can be vacated and used to relocate vendors.

The TVC members said that waste generated by vendors will eventually land up on roads and footpaths, unless efficiently handled. Similarly, toilets and drinking water facilities must be arranged for vendors, close to their allocated spots. The civic body must plan a solid waste management system for hawkers' zones before allocating spaces to vendors.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:19

One Third of City's Population Lives in Slums

Friday, 03 January 2014 09:16 administrator

The New Indian Express 03.01.2014

The Urban Community Development (UCD) wing, the neglected wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) would get more attention for uplift of the poor and downtrodden sections of the society, GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar has said.

More than one-third of Hyderabad’s population reside in slums and other poor settlements. Due to lack of awareness, the poor suffer from many inadequacies in terms of access to basic services and socio- economic needs.

It was therefore necessary to formulate and implement policies and programmes to integrate the slums in the city with the mainstream society, both in terms of infrastructure provision and social and economic development, he said while interacting with newsmen here on Thursday.

To encourage self-help groups to establish small businesses to provide self-employment opportunities to the unemployed youth in the city, the GHMC had drawn up several new initiatives for the women SHGs and youth, the commissioner said and added that the number of SHGs within the GHMC Limits would be increased from the present 4.5 lakh to seven lakh this year.

He said that the GHMC would encourage the SHGs and unemployed youth to set up as many as 100 reverse osmosis water plants by involving 1,000 youth.

The purified potable water would be supplied through water cans in slums and other places, especially in those areas where polluted the drinking water was polluted, at affordable costs.

The GHMC would help the SHGs and youth through bank linkages to set up the reverse osmosis water plants.

Two multi-skill training centres would be set up in each of the five GHMC zones for imparting training in various fields to the unemployed youth to help them secure jobs such as physical fitness trainers, cab drivers, security guards, etc., Somesh Kumar said.

The GHMC would launch a special drive to increase the registrations of girl children under ‘Bangaru Talli’ this year as the registrations under the scheme were not satisfactory so far. As part of the special drive, the GHMC would conduct awareness programmes in slums and weaker section colonies, the commissioner said.

Under the scheme, only 1,926 girl children had been registered in the City so far, he added.

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