Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi on Sunday instructed the Commissioner of Villianur commune panchayat to identify assets built out of public funds and lying idle.
The Lt. Governor, who visited Keezhsathamangalam village on Sunday, asked the Commissioner, Villianur Commune Panchayat, to visit all such buildings/infrastructure and write to the departments concerned for putting them to use for the purpose for which they were created and, if not possible, identify alternative use.
Ms. Bedi, who visited the village in response to a complaint received at a recent Open House session, noted that the PHC was functioning on the first floor of a rented building whose owner wanted the premises vacated.
Also, Prema, Medical Officer, informed that the location of the PHC on the first floor posed difficulties to aged people and pregnant women.
Ms. Bedi instructed officials to relocate the PHC to the vacant panchayat building. The Villianur Commissioner offered to spare a panchayat building that was available after following the due process.
On noting that the panchayat building had a ramp facility, the Lt. Governor asked the Commissioner to landscape the pathway to facilitate the sick and elderly people to have easy access to the health centre.
It was also decided that an unused toilet at Keezhsathamangalampet would be renovated by the Commune Panchayat and would be allocated to the SHG from the area for its upkeep and maintenance through a transparent process.
On the complaint of villagers on de-silting of the lake in the village, the Public Works Department Engineers were asked to prepare short term and long term engineering plans to desilt the lake and channelise drain water. Also, the aspect of getting it done under MNREGA is to be taken up in co-ordination with the District Rural Development Agency.
