The K.T. Rama Rao, Hon’ble Minister for MA&UD observed that inspite of the State Govt., orders for ban of single use plastic on World Environment Day still the usage of plastic water bottles and plastic materials are being seen in the offices, in this connection he directed Arvind Kumar, Principal Secretary, MA&UD to issue clear directions to all the Commissioners of the Municipal Corporations, Municipalities of the entire State to strictly implement single use plastic and play a very vital role to curb this menace right from the office premises so that it can be implement in the jurisdiction and as well as in the entire City and the State said the Minister.
The Minister interacted with all the Senior Officials of the GHMC and enquired about the Road Restoration works, Desiltation of Nalas, Nala obstruction removals, critical bottle necks, Water Logging Points, action plan with regard to Monsoon Preparedness have been discussed with the Chief Engineers, Zonal Commissioners, Town Planning Officials to show their works in action but not on paper so that effective work can be achieved. Only the Minister, Mayor, Commissioner, Chief Engineers, Additional Commissioners cannot overcome all these problems therefore from ground level staff to the senior officers must have effective coordination for taking actions and implementing strict rules for overall development of the city said the Minister.
The Minister said that the vision of the Hon’ble CM is to take up the development on war footing basis and as per his vision let the Commissioner sent proposals to the Govt., for increasing the Circles from 30 to 50 and Zones from 6 to 10 so that the development works can be taken up in a more appropriate way. There is every need to strengthen the existing Town Planning Departments by deputing more additional staff with which they can take the services for taking up demolitions, nala encroachments etc., with Director Enforcement & Vigilance and Disaster Management.
The Minister expressed that the works which are being taken up are not up to the expectations and need to be taken up with more care right from Circle Commissioners, Zonal Commissioners, Addl. Commissioners to have regular convergence meetings to have more coordination to take up the works on priority.
The Minister also directed the Police Officials to coordinate with the GHMC for taking up Road Restoration Works in some of the areas in the morning so that the road restoration works can be completed as per the target assigned to them.
The Dr.B.Janardhan Reddy, Commissioner, GHMC explained about the action plan and monsoon preparedness, desiltation of nalas and various other activities taken up by the GHMC and stated that the desiltation works have taken up more than that of last year and the works are going throughout the year.
The Additional Commissioners Bharathi Holikeri, Musharaf Ali, Adwait Kumar Singh, Sikta Patnaik, Chief Engineers Ziauddin, Sreedhar, Zonal Commissioners, Superintendent Engineers, Executive Engineers and senior officials of various wings of other Govt., departments have also attended the meeting held at GHMC Head Office today.
