Panihati Municipality e-Newsletter January 2016, VOLUME-8

From The Desk of Chairman:

Friends, To start with, I wish you all A Very Happy New Year 2016 and hope all the very best for your holistic well- being related with career, prospects, health and mental peace. We would definitely strive for a ‘Clean and Green’ Panihati and expect your all-round participation and cooperation to achieve our goal. Beside this, maintaining peace and social harmony in our everyday life is equally important for all of us to move towards progress and development. The citizens of

Municipal Vision: “Panihati Municipality will work for the improvement of physical and social infrastructure with due consideration for pro-poor, participatory and inclusive development based with equity and equality. It includes concern for environmental factors (in widest sense of the term covering pollution-free environment, development of greenery and enhancement of overall beautification of the city etc.), introducing gender and child sensitive policies, provision for ‘shelter for shelter less’, primary and mass education facility especially for the children of economically weak and linguistic minority sections. This will enable the citizens across the sectors of the society to be healthy, knowledgeable and economically self-sufficient. The municipality aims to achieve its goals through mobilization of local and other resources, efficiency, better citizen interface and organizational development.”

Panihati, this year, may expect a better and improved civic services in respect of shelter, water, sanitation, infrastructure and livelihood and in other respects. In the leading and inspiring footsteps of our Honourable Chief Minister Smt. Mamata Banerjee, Panihati is also playing its part to fulfill her dreams of Reviving and Resurgent Bengal. Various State and Centrally sponsored schemes are also being implemented in our city and the related activities are progressing in full swing. Providing shelter to the shelter less and poor living in inhabitable condition with basic services like food, water, sanitation, sewerage and livelihood facilities towards the goal of reducing poverty and inequality, improved physical and social infrastructure and other civic amenities, better education facilities, strengthening the e-governance system towards transparency and decentralized democracy, fluent and dynamic ways of dissemination of information would also be our prioritized focus in the forthcoming days. Various reform measures in compliance with the National and State level policies and guidelines would be implemented gradually to achieve self-sufficiency, judicious use of our resources and reduction in energy consumption and pollution level. Panihati has a glorious tradition of rich heritage and culture which would be strengthened and nourished with time. In our future plan, potentialities for tourism attraction would also be explored and preliminary activities towards this goal have already been started. We look forward your support and cooperation in our journey towards development.

Swapan Ghosh

Chiarman, Panihati Municipality

Project Updates Panihati Schemes for Development of Parks under AMRUT:

Panihati Municipality has submitted Detail Project Reports (DPR) for development of 5 parks under AMRUT during the financial year of 2015-16 to the State Mission Directorate, West Bengal, AMRUT for necessary approval. Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM): In compliance with the "The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013"issued by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India, State Monitoring Committee (SMC), constituted Nodal Department of the State, Backward Classes Welfare Department, Govt. of West Bengal had decided in its first meeting that a Comprehensive House to House Survey for identification of Insanitary / latrines' for Urban areas had to be canvassed in all ULBs within the State for complete elimination of insanitary latrines and construction of Sanitary / Community Latrine, thereof. Accordingly, Comprehensive House to House Survey in each and every household of all the ULBs of the State had been conducted in the ULBs during January-February 2015 as per the directions State Urban Development Agency (SUDA), West Bengal. Findings of this survey in many ULBs generated figures in much deviation with Census 2011 data. To resolve this, during June-July 2015, SUDA has further directed to review the survey (Preparation of error-free comprehensive list of insanitary or no latrine facilities) data with the technical guidance from Municipal Engineering Directorate (MED), West Bengal. City Sanitation Plan for Panihati has been generated on the revised estimate and as per guidelines with the concerned department.

Tentative Financial Requirements: Panihati Municipality

Funding [As per the funding pattern in

the SBM Under Guidelines]

2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2014-2019 (TOTAL)

A Construction of new individual household latrines (IHL)

-

600,000

- - 600,000

B Conversion of pit latrines into sanitary latrines

936,000

2,180,000

2,176,000 936,000 6,228,000

C Conversion of insanitary latrines into sanitary latrines

1,804,000

4,204,000

4,204,000 1,804,000 12,016,000

D

Construction of Community toilets [NORM: 1 seat/25 women and 1 seat/ 35 men]

76,000

176,000

172,000 76,000 500,000

E

Construction of Public Toilets [NORM: 1 seat/ 50 women and 1 seat/ 100 men up to specific numbers*]

68,000

160,000

156,000 68,000 452,000

F Solid Waste Management (based on per capita cost)

100185525 233766225 233766225 10018552500

667903500

G Capita Building & A&OE 60000 180000 180000 180000 600000

H Public Awareness & IEC 0 0 0 0 0

Total 688,299,500

The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) Activities: In Panihati, NUHM activities are running as per schedule. UHND programme along with special outreach camps have been continued. Outreach camps on eye, skin, pediatric, gynaeo, diabetes and hypertension held in January 2016 which will be continued in February. The Birth and Death section of the Municipality is functioning satisfactorily. The ULB is committed to deliver the Birth and Death certificates to the concerned parties within specified period so that no one faces any problem. Implementation of ACGM order has been made stricter to maintain any malpractice in this regard.

Food security has always been a priority programme in line with the Central and State sponsored programme. Panihati Municipality has taken strides to implement the ‘Khadyo Sathi’ programme of Govt.of West Bengal. The benefit of the programme includes providing rice and wheat @ Rs.2/- through the public distribution system. About 7 crores of people from West Bengal will get benefit of this project. Enlisting the names of the beneficiaries has been started before and now the preparation for distribution process is about to begin shortly. Issuing cards to the beneficiaries have been started as well.

Panihati Municipality has been awarded with Certificate of Honour for its commendable participation in observing the ‘Hand Washing Day’ on December 4th 2015 from the Office of The District Magistrate and Collector, North 24 Pargana, Zilla Parishad.

Events: Vivek Chetona Utsob 2016, was celebrated in Panihati Municipality with great solemnity and fanfare. A colourful procession from Agarpara Tentultala to Sodepur Amoraboti Moidan with tableaus, festoons, flexes depicting the spirit and messages of Swami Vivekananda was organized by Panihati Municipality. About 3500 students from 35 schools along with their teachers and guardians participated in the processions and performed dances, songs and recitations and made the programme a grand success. The procession was led by Sri Nirmal Ghosh-The Honourable Member of Legislative Assembly, West Bengal along with Sri Swapan Ghosh –The Honourable Chairman of Panihati Municipality. The Councillors, Officials, employees and local community people attended the auspicious occasion in large numbers.

At the second part of the programme, the auspicious inauguration of Cycle Distribution to the students of 35 schools within Panihati Municipality under the ‘Sobuj Sathi Prokolpo’ of Govt. of West Bengal-The Flagship project inspired by Smt. Mamata Banerjee – The Honourable Chief Minister of West Bengal was organized by Panihati Municipality at the Amoraboti Moidan, Sodepur. This programme was attended by Prof. Sougata Roy-Honourable Member of Parliament from DumDum Lok Sabha Kendra, Sri Nirmal Ghosh-The Honourable Member of Legislative Assembly, West Bengal along with Sri Swapan Ghosh –The Honourable Chairman of Panihati Municipality, The Honorable Councillors of Panihati Municipality, Officials, employees and students, teachers, guardians and residents of Panihati Municipality. This was the inauguration of the programme-all the students studying at 10th to 12th standard of 35 schools will be benefitted from this project. About 8416 cycles (Boys: 4186; Girls-4230 nos.) would be distributed to the students in a phase-wise manner. The programme was a grand success. It ended with a valedictory note by Sri Swapan Ghosh –The Honourable Chairman of Panihati Municipality who wished the students for their future successes in life and academic careers.

Subhas Utsob 2016 under Youth Welfare Department, Govt. of West Bengal was also observed at Panihati Municipality on 22nd and 23rd January 2016 to commemorate the 119th Birth Day Celebrations of Sri Subhash Chandra Bose- the eminent leader and freedom fighter of our country. Recitation, songs, dance, sit-in drawing, quiz competitions etc. were organized in this occasion for various age-groups. Spontaneous participation of the young talents adds colours to the programme and made the programme a grand success.

67th National Republic Day 2016 was observed in Panihati Municipality with the nation on 26th January 2016 with Flag hoisting and National Anthem. The programme was attended by the Councillors, Municipal official and employees who commemorate the grand occation of the nation with due honour, pride and solemnity.

For Feedback and Suggestions Please Contact: Panihati Municipality

Panihati , North 24 Parganas, Pin no.- 700 114 Phone: 2553-2909/2563-4457 Fax : 2553-1487 Website- www.panihatimunicipality.in Email ID- panihatimunicipality@yahoo.co.in