Monday, October 12, 2009

Rs. 15 crore for Madikeri: Old wine in new bottle?

MADIKERI: An action plan involving Rs. 15 crore from the Chief Minister’s Small and Medium Towns Development Project (CMSMTDP) for 2009-10 for developing infrastructure and slums in Madikeri in the first phase has been sent to the State Government through the Department of Municipal Administration (DMA).

The district in-charge Minister has approved the action plan in consultation with the MLAs and MLCs from the district. The action plan for the second phase of development, involving another instalment of Rs. 15 crore for 2010-11 is ready. It will be sent to the Deputy Commissioner in a few days and later to the district in-charge Minister, Madikeri City Municipal Council Commissioner Srikanth Rao told The Hindu on Sunday.

In the first phase, Rs. 9.88 crore had been earmarked by the CMC for building roads, drains, repairing roads, construction of footpaths, retaining walls, etc. A sum of Rs. 3 crore had been earmarked for the development of slums in Madikeri. A sum of Rs. 1 crore had been kept aside for construction of a private bus stand in the city. For installation of high mast streetlights, Rs. 62 lakh had been earmarked and Rs. 50 lakh for the Kundamestri drinking water project, Mr. Rao said. (more)

1 comments:

SK said...

If we add up all the money (in crore) sanctioned to Kodagu in the last couple of years, we should have become a Singapore.