MCC must issue notices to unauthorized Building Owners : Suresh Kumar

09.06.10 Mangalore : Mangalore City Corporation must prevent the construction of unauthorized buildings which violate rules and regulations of Mangalore Urban Development Authority, said S Suresh Kumar, State Minister for Urban Development.

Speaking at the progress review meeting on the developmental works taking place at the limits of Mangalore City Corporation held at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner’s office on June 9, Wednesday, he said that MCC must immediately issue notices to the building, hotels and shopping complexes owners which lack parking facilities, and cancel their licenses even after issuing the notice.

Protecting traffic rules is one of the major responsibilities of City Corporation hence, the district administration to restrain the violation of traffic rules without any hesitation, he urged.

V Ponnuraj, Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, said that the district administration is encouraging to implement the off-street parking throughout the city. Since road is meant for movement of the vehicles and not for parking.

MCC Commissioner Dr K N Vijayaprakash said that, in order to tackle the problem on solid waste management, MCC has come out with a plan of temporary soil capping solution to avoid fire accidents in dumping yards. But the permanent solution requires the amount of Rs 2. 5 crores, he added.

Minister Suresh Kumar congratulated Mangalore city for securing eighth place out of 25 cities selected among the 400 cities of the country for maintaining better waste disposal system. Mysore bagged second position, further he requested the city corporation to bring Mangalore to the second place.

The Minister criticized the two engineers of MCC for their irresponsible behaviour who quarreled in public recently, and asked the administration to collect the report from two regarding the quarrel in 15 days.

State Home Minister Dr. V. S. Acharya,  MLA Yogish Bhat, Rajani Dugganna, Mayor, Krishna J Palemar, District In-charge Minister, Deputy Mayor Rajendra Kumar and DC V Ponnuraj were present on the occasion.