Vellakovil City Development Plan - Municipal

City Development Plan for Vellakoil Municipality SMEC India Pvt Ltd
Final Report TNUDP III
9. GIS for 5 urban local bodies: Consultancy for Preparation of Property mapping and
Utility Mapping for Madurai, Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli Corporations and
Rajapalayam & Gobichettipalayam Municipalities has been initiated as a pilot project by
the office of CMA.
10. ESCO Studies: TNUIFSL initiative for the Implementation of energy efficiency in Water
pumping and Street lighting systems under performance contract.
11. Right to Information Act, GoI : An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of
right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public
authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every
public authority.
12. The Public Disclosure Law:
To reduce the workload of public officials increased due to additional responsibility of
responding to RTI requests, the public disclosure law will require that information be
published voluntarily by public authorities. This will significantly reduce the number of
routine RTI requests. The Public Disclosure Law will complement the RTI Act. The
Disclosure Law will provide for commonly requested information on a regular basis and
the RTI Act may be used for more specific information.
6.2 PROPOSED INTERVENTIONS AT STATE LEVEL
a. Property Tax
Implement a framework law for disputed properties, so that the assessees pay the tax first and
then carry out necessary litigation as in Central Govt. Depts.
b. Community participation law
Enacting the “Community Participation Law” that will make it mandatory for the government and
its agencies to get the view of citizens, mainly residents’ welfare associations and other citizens’
groups, before starting any project.
c. Initiatives in Private Participation
In Tamil Nadu, PPP has been identified as a modality for development and the PPP cell has been
formulated as the nodal agency to guide the various Govt. Agencies such as CMDA, TNSCB,TNAMB .
The processes such as vetting of RFQ/RFP, Project preparation ,Procurement of private operator ,
Approvals etc are being handled by the cell at present.
The cell has also prepared training materials, presentations/handouts, compiled case studies
etc, which are given as a part of capacity building Content for web hosting developed pending
approval by Go TN.
The way forward
1. Information dissemination to public sector agencies and various ULBs through websites
of the ULBs and CMA and organizing workshops with the aid of Anna Institute of
Management, TNIUS, Council of Indian Industries etc.
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