Mangaluru, Dec 19: Vinay Kumar Sorake, the Minister for Urban Development, has said that the Mangaluru City Corporation has not sent any proposal to the State government to upgrade the civic body as Greater Mangaluru City Corporation.
Responding to a query by Ivan D'Souza, MLC, Mr Sorake said that he had directed the corporation to send a proposal on these lines to the State government about a year ago.
The minister also said that the State government had not received any guidelines from the Union government for including Mangaluru under its smart city project. The matter would be examined after receiving the guidelines.
It could be recalled here that J R Lobo, MLA, Mangaluru City South, and Mahabala Marla, Mayor, Mangaluru City Corporation, had voiced against Greater Mangaluru project.
Mr Marla had recently said that the Corporation was not in a position to spend on development works in areas to be merged under Greater Mangaluru project.
œNot much revenue can be expected from areas Mulky. We can consider it at a later stage when the existing areas get developed using funds available under the Smart City scheme, he said.
Marla said that the Corporation will include Moodshedde and Bala gram panchayat areas in its limits to stake claim to be part of the Smart City scheme of the Union government. At present, the population in the corporation limits, as per 2011 census, is a little over 4.99 lakh ” falling short by a fewer than 1,000 ” to be eligible for the Smart City project announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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