Gudiyattam Gudiyattam Town - Municipal

Annexure Final Report: Gudiyattam Municipality
The stakeholdersí workshop started at 4.00 PM on Thursday October 16, 2008 in the
Conference Hall of the Municipality. The workshop was chaired by Chairman ñ Thiru
R.S.Shivaprakasam. In His opening speech, Mr. Shivaprakasam briefed the
stakeholders about the objectives of the project and the workshop. The
Commissioner of The Municipality Thiru R.Subramanian presented his view on the
City Corporate cum Business Plan. Municipal Engineer Mr.U.Saravanan presented
the general view of the town. Mr. P.M.Saravanan (Senior Engineer, Voyants Solutions
Private Limited) briefed about the work completed by the consultant for the City
Corporate cum Business Plan. After that Mr. Saravanan & Mr. Sreepathy presented
the brief status, problem and issues relating to urban basic services an infrastructure
in Gudiyattam. And after this presentation, the stakeholders were asked to give their
suggestions/ comments in three parts. In first part, the consultants invited comments
on the contents of the presentation. In the second part stakeholders were invited to
present the problems of the city which are hindrances to the development. In the
last section of the workshop, the officials from various departments were answered
and suggested the projects required for the integrated development of
Gudiyattam.
The Suggestions:
The suggestions given by the various stakeholders are presented below:
Thiru R.S.Shivaprakasam, Chairman
City is having very less fund for infrastructure development, though industrialists
and business man belong to this want to contribute for improvement
infrastructure of town but that fund also is not sufficient
Grant from Government is very low so they can not initiate the development of
basic infrastructure.
People are ready to pay for provision of infrastructure but it should be quality
infrastructure and nominal for them as they are paying for RO treated water
supply.
Town roads are encroached by the people so they should be fined and need
widening for congestion free traffic.
The formula to calculate the Property tax is wrong it should be revised as a
person living in a single floor with small house is paying the same price, what a
person with 3 floor is paying.
There is a need to provide infrastructure to Govt. School as the quality of
infrastructure is very poor.
Sewerage system and replacement of Water line is on priority and after that the
road work should start.
Electric cable to be change as a underground cable.
The Rabbinson tank to be renovated with rainwater harvesting facilities and
create the park in and around tank.
The old bus stands to be changed as shopping complex.
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