Arani Town - Municipal

Chapter ñ 7 Final Report: Arani Municipality
7.2.2 Health Section
The Municipal Sanitary officer is the overall in-charge of the Health Section. He looks
after the prevention of Food Adulteration, conservatory work including sweeping of
Streets maintenance of Drainage, controlling of epidemic diseases, ensuring of
license to D&O trades, Birth and Death Registration, issuing birth and death
certificate and also responsible for removing of dead animals and stray animals. The
Sanitary Supervisor and Sanitary Workers are assisting the Municipal Health Officer.
The Municipal Health Officer is also responsible for solid waste management.
7.2.3 Engineering Section
The Municipal Engineer is the over-all in-charge of Engineering Section. Municipal
Engineer will control the Asst Engineer, Technical Assistant, Road Mazdoor, Electrical
Superintendent, Wireman, Helper and Fitter working in the section. The Municipal
Engineer looks after the maintenance of Street lights, Road laying, construction of
building, drainage, maintenance of parks, head works & municipal vehicles. The
other subordinate officers are assisting the Engineer to look after the above work.
7.2.4 Town Planning Section
In Arani Municipality, the Town Planning Officer is the over all in-charge of the
section. He looks after the work of preparation of Master Plan, maintaining the land
use as per the approved master plan, Licensing of plan building, booking of
unauthorized construction, approval of lay out in the town limit, controlling and
removing the encroachment in the town. The Town Planning Inspector will assist the
Town Planning Officer in the planning of future dev. of the town & allied works.
7.2.5 Accounts Section
The Accounts section is included in General Section. The Accountant is the Head of
the wing and controlling financial matters. It involves into preparation of Budget
discipline and the Actual based Accounting System.
The Revenue section is headed by the Revenue Inspector and the inspector is
supported by Bill Collectors with the task collection of taxes and Non-taxes and is
held responsible for the entire collection of Revenue.
7.3 CITIZENíS CHARTER
As per the directions of the Government of Tamil Nadu, the Municipality has
published its ëCitizens Charterí during 1998 to bring ULBs functioning closer to the
people. The main focus of this charter is to introduce transparency, responsibility and
user friendliness in its service provision and maintenance. The objectives of this
chapter are to:
Provide fast and quality services to citizens
Inform the public about time limits to address the problems
To provide transparency in administration
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