"Greater Mangalore" - MCC to hold meet May 30

"Greater Mangalore" - MCC to hold meet May 30

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 30, 2014:  Mayor Mahabala Marla told the press that the agenda on which policy decisions are to be taken, would be placed before the meeting on May 30. Mangalore City Corporation  has put on hold a proposal to form Greater Mangalore for sometime now is likely to take it up again. According to sources in the corporation, officials moved an agenda to be tabled in the council’s meeting on May 30.

The Mayor said that he would convene a special meeting of the council before June 15 to take a decision on forming Greater Mangalore. It required elaborate discussion which could not be done in the monthly meetings of the council.  Though the Commissioner of the corporation Ajith Kumar Hegde S., in a meeting of elected representatives chaired by B. Ramanath Rai, minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada, on February 10, asked them to take a decision on it, Mr. Rai left it to the council’s decision.

Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Sports and Fisheries K. Abhayachandra Jain in a September 4, 2013 letter to the corporation had asked the corporation to take Bajpe, Moodushedde, Chelyar, Jokatte, Haleyangady, Padu Panambur Gram Panchayats and Mulki Town Panchayat from Moodbidri Assembly constituency under its jurisdiction.After these developments the then administrator of the corporation N. Prakash had convened a meeting with authorities of local bodies to discuss the proposal.  It has been proposed to merge 18 local bodies on the outskirts of Mangalore with the city corporation to form Greater Mangalore City Corporation. According to it, 32 villages under 18 local bodies, comprising 16 gram panchayats and Mulki Town Panchayat and Ullal Town Municipality, should be merged with the city corporation. But Neerumarga and Adyar Gram Panchayats have not agreed to merge while Konaje, Someshwar, Kotekar and Talapady gram panchayats have not yet communicated their decision.  Padu Panambur, Haleyangady, Chelyar, Bala, Jokatte, Bajpe, Moodushedde, Navoor, Belma, Munnur have agreed to merge.
It may be recalled that Minister for Urban Development Vinay Kumar Sorake, last year took up the matter of forming Greater Mangalore which was on the back burner.