more-inA controversy over ‘poor planning and low spending on developments projects’ is raging in Kochi Corporation as the March 31 deadline for the completion of projects is fast approaching. With a few weeks left for the completion of the Plan year, the local body could spent only 17% of its Plan fund, which the Opposition highlighted as a case of inefficiency of the civic administrators. The corporation was expected to implement 990 projects ranging from repair and renovation works to construction of buildings during the fiscal. This being the last year of the current Five-Year Plan, there are apprehensions about the fate of incomplete projects,” he said. Dismissing the apprehensions that development projects suggested by residents and approved by the council would be lost, Ms. Jain said they would be taken up during the next fiscal.

Source: The Hindu February 19, 2017 15:26 UTC