Summary:
One of the major decisions at the Kochi Corporation council meeting held on October 23 was to take urgent measures for ensuring hassle-free issuance of building permits. The review conducted by district planning committee (DPC) held a few days ago found that Kochi Corporation could spent just 16% of the plan fund so far.The council held on October 23 decided to fix uniform rates for cremating bodies at all the crematoria owned by Kochi Corporation. The fact that there already exists a bylaw for crematoria flashed in the memory of none!The decision to evict roadside vendors taken at the October 23 council meeting also had not been implemented. “Thousands of applications are pending due to the apathy on the part of the corporation authorities. While checking whether the decision could be executed at the council meeting exactly after a month, it was found that the boards couldn’t be put up..