The Hindu : Residents' body's proposals for city development

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Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002

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Residents' body's proposals for city development

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Dec. 16. The Federation of Residents' Associations, Thiruvananthapuram (FRAT), a grouping of residents associations in the city, has demanded that the Government streamline solid waste management, drinking water supply, drainage and sewerage system and develop the roads in the city.

The federation submitted a set of proposals to the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, by handing over a copy to the Additional Chief Secretary, Babu Paul, who is heading the committee on capital development at a general body meeting here on Sunday. The federation wanted the Government to take steps to establish a Bench of the High Court with filing powers and ensure that the offices in the capital were not shifted.

The city should be cleaned before 10 a.m. The Corporation and the Government should see that the garbage treatment plant functioned without causing any disturbance to the locals. The clubs, marriage halls and hotels should deliver waste at a particular point and it should be taken to the plant the same day itself.

A major portion of the city does not have drainage facility. The waste released into the water bodies would lead to outbreak of epidemics. Drainage facility should be extended all over the city and a modern treatment plant should be set up. Drinking water shortage was acute in the elevated parts of the city. The pipes, laid years ago, should be replaced and novel projects designed to end the shortage.

Street lighting was now being taken care of by the Corporation and the KSEB. Neither the Corporation nor the KSEB was responsible in maintaining the street lights and hence it should be vested with one department. The Subramaniya Swamy Temple Road should be developed as a parallel road to the M.G. Road. Ring roads could be developed through Pattoor, Mulavana, Plamoodu, Ulloor, Medical College, Kannamoola, and Peroorkada, Kowdiyar and Thycaud.

Work on the Kazhakoottam-Kovalam, second phase of the Vellayambalam-Thycaud, East Fort-Ambalathara, Airport-East Fort, Shangumughom-Airport-East Fort, Shangumughom-Pettah-Palayam,- Kowdiyar-Peroorkada and Ulloor-Kannamoola-Pettah roads should be widened and developed. Roads to the Medical College Hospital from different parts of the district should be developed so that there would be easy access to it.

The Thampanoor bus station should be made exclusive for long-distance buses and new arrangements must be made for city service. The city should be divided into four regions and the bus stands must be either expanded or new ones should be set up. The routes should be fixed in such a way that all services touch Thampanoor and East Fort. Priority should be given to the coastal road from Kovalam to Varkala. Mr.Babu Jacob said that representatives of the federation could be included in the committee formed by the Government for capital development and their suggestions would be given due importance.

The federation also launched a free ambulance service in association with the Margin Free Market Private Limited. The City Police Commissioner, Rajan Singh, handed over the key of the ambulance to the federation president, T.A. John.

The meeting re-elected Mr. John as president, Punchakari Ravindran Nair as general secretary and K.S. Sudheer as treasurer.

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