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Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
CM okays MCH plan on improvement of slum areas
By Our Staff Reporter
HYDERABAD, DEC. 6. The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, has given the go ahead for utilising 20 per cent of the property tax collected by the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) for improvement of slum areas in the twin cities. Presently, only 10 per cent of the tax is being used for the purpose.
This was disclosed by the MCH Commissioner, Dr. P.K. Mohanty, while briefing presspersons after the High-Level Coordination Committee visit on Thursday. He said he had made a presentation at a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister also ordered that the compounding fee collected by the Traffic Police be given back to them for maintaining traffic lights and improving traffic signage and markings. The DCP Traffic, Mr. M.V. Dinakar Prasad, and the Additional Commissioner-MCH (Traffic and Transportation), Mr. R. Ranadhir Reddy, would visit New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore to study signage and present a report, based on which works would be undertaken in the City.
The Hyderabad District Collector, Mr. Rajeshwar Tiwari, said that the Chief Minister had increased the unit cost of 5,900 houses to Rs. 50,000. The houses had been left unfinished as the unit cost of Rs. 30,000 was found to be not enough.
Dr. Mohanty said that during the year 2001-2002, 23 roads were being widened at a cost of Rs. 20 crores, which includes the compensation paid. He said that land worth Rs. 749 crores had been secured free by providing incentives under the Floor Space Index Scheme. In 2000-2001, 16 roads had been widened at a cost of Rs. 10.09 crores, he said.
Speaking on the quality of works taken up by the MCH, he said that when the Chief Minister's Quality Control Adviser, Mr. Subba Rami Reddy, had started inspection, the percentage of works with some deficiency was 24. The percentage had steadily decreased and during the last inspection in November, 2001, it had fallen to just 4. Out of 68 works inspected, only three were found deficient, he said.
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