Varanasi civic team learns how GHMC functions

Hyderabad: As part of 'Leadership for Good Governance and Service Delivery' study tour, a team of officials from Nagar Nigam Varanasi, Jal kal Vibhag, Nagar Nigam Varanasi, Ganga Pollution prevention Unit, Varanasi, JICA-PMU and JICA- IDP, visited GHMC head office and learnt about its functioning. They also called on Mayor Dr Bonthu Rammohan and Deputy Mayor Baba Fasiuddin.

The GHMC officials made a Powerpoint presentation to the visitors on the innovative initiatives taken by GHMC in town planning i.e., GIS tagging each house, identification of properties of unassessed and under assessed, finding out commercial or residential use of a property, advantages of My GHMC app, e-office etc. They also informed that about 2.82 lakh downloadings of birth and death certificates, bio-metric attendance, vehicle monitoring system, streetlight monitoring, command and control room and others.

The officials also explained about the public and private partnership model adopted for laying and maintenance of main roads for a stretch of 709 km for a period of 5 years, footpath developments, lifting of garbage etc.

Works of Charminar Pedestrian project and facelift of Mozajahim Market, restoration of clocks at different Minars under the heritage project also figured in the presentations. Additional Commissioner Siktha Patnaik, Chief Engineer Zia Uddin, Director-CCP Srinivas Rao, and other GHMC higher officials participated in the meeting.