THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a bid to set a model to the citizens on decentralised waste management, biogas plants would be set up at the Corporation office and Legislative Assembly complex soon. At a press conference held here on Tuesday, Mayor K Chandrika said that the plants would come up as part of ‘Suchitolsav-2011’ currently on under a state government initiative, which will continue till November 2. The waste from the Corporation office and from the canteen on the Corporation compound would be treated in the biogas plant to be set up there. Similar plants would also come up in Peroorkada, Manacaud and Chalai markets where there has been great demand for the facility ever since the garbage issue turned sour. The Corporation also plans to set up a plastic-shredding unit in Manacaud market, the Mayor said. She complained that the government had not handed over the minutes of the three meetings held in connection with the Vilappilsala waste treatment issue. The Corporation would remove all illegal hoardings in the city from November 1. Those hoardings which do not carry the hologram given out by the Corporation while issuing licence would be removed. The hoardings which have run out of the licence period would also be brought down, officials said in the press meet. The Mayor once again demanded that the State Government should hand over the money set aside for road development in the Corporation area. Presently, the government has placed the onus of repairing Corporation roads on the PWD. The Mayor and her team had passed a resolution against the government decision in the last Council meeting. Reiterating the stand of the Corporation in the issue, the Mayor termed it as a move by the government to trample upon the concept of decentralisation, which gives powers to local body. ‘’The Corporation should be given the power to do the repair work of roads under its purview. The present government decision would hamper the relations between councillors and citizens in wards,’’ she said. The Mayor said that the annual plan of the Corporation for the year 2011-12 was in doldrums as the 700-odd projects which were submitted to the District Planning Committee (DPC) were yet to be cleared. ‘’Since it is the last plan in the 11th Five Year Plan, they cannot be taken up as spillover projects, which means the fund would be wasted. It is the delay in restructuring the State-level Resource group and State-level Technical Advisory Group that has caused the plan approval to prolong,’’ Chandrika said.
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