Collectors skip Face to Face with Mayor
Hyderabad, Nov 6 (INN): Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy on Saturday ordered Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials to immediately widen and repair the Mehdipatnam-Moazzam Jahi Market road (via Asifnagar, Mallepally and Sitaram Bagh). The Mayors directive came after Mr Padmanabham, a resident of Sitarambagh had complained of horrendous traffic conditions and pathetic state of the road on phone as part of the monthly Face-to-Face programme. One Quadir Pasha of Abdullahpurmet complained of the illegal sale of liquor in his locality. Cyberabad Commission K Prabhakar Rao stated that the matter would be looked into immediately and the grievance solved.
Surprisingly, neither Hyderabad district Collector Natarajan Gulzar and Ranga Reddy district Collector Dana Kishore, nor any of their representatives were present at the programme. Likewise, there were no officials present from the Telecom department. As many as 29 citizens put forward their grievances at the Face-to-Face programme. Among these, 15 citizens used the telephone to raise the issues facing them, while 14 appeared in person. Of these 29 complaints, 21 were against the GHMC, while four complaints were raised against the police department, three against the HMWSSB and one against the Road Transport Corporation.
At the last Face-to-Face programme held on September 4, 59 grievances were raised. Of these, 48 complaints were solved and 11 are being looked into. Besides Mayor Karthika Reddy, the GHMC Commissioner, various government departments like the Commissioners of Police (Hyderabad and Cyberabad); HMDA Metropolitan Commissioner, HMWSSB Managing Director, AP TRANSCO Chief Engineer, Metro Zone, APSRTC Regional Manager and a nominee of South Central Railway General Manager among others attended the programme.
This programme is conducted once in a month on every first Saturday, under the Chairmanship of the Mayor. The venue for the programme is the Face to Face Hall, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Head Office.
News Posted: 6 November, 2010
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