The Nainital municipality will start operation of e-rickshaws in the city this month. Soon a garbage disposal plant will also be set up with the help of Kumaon university. The municipality chairman Sachin Negi said this while listing the achievements of the board which completed two years of its term on Tuesday.
Addressing the media, Sachin Negi said that the municipality board is also attempting to facilitate gas pipeline connections to homes in Nainital. Talks in this regard have been held with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, which will soon conduct a survey for this purpose. Negi further informed that about 133 development works had been executed in all wards of the municipality during the past two years. While a slaughter house was built in Tallital Harinagar, a marriage hall was built in Narayannagar. About 1,600 stray dogs- about 96 per cent of their total population- were also sterilised in two years. In order to increase the revenue of the municipality, a car parking is also proposed on the Tallital-Haldwani road. Efforts are also being made to expedite collection of municipal taxes and rent will also be charged from those occupying municipal accommodations illegally. Negi said that the municipality has sought five-month advance of the grants provided by the government to it so that all the pending dues of the municipality personnel can be cleared on time.
Referring to the garbage disposal plant being built in Narayannagar, he said that once the plant is made, the municipality will save on the fuel spent on transporting the garbage to Haldwani. Additionally, it will benefit from the manure made from organic waste and the graphene to be made by Kumaon university from the inorganic garbage. The municipality executive officer Ashok Verma, various councillors and officials were also present on the occasion.
Wednesday, 02 December 2020 | PNS | Nainital
