Karimnagar :

An autonomous committee has been set up with the Mission of Karimnagar City Renovation (KCR) to develop Karimnagar as a model city.

The 12-member committee, set up three days back, is headed by Karimnagar MP B Vinod Kumar and has MLA, Karimnagar Municipal Corporation (KMC commissioner, mayor and deputy mayor and seven prominent residents of the town as its members.

A brainchild of Karimnagar MLA Gangula Kamalakar, the committee has already collected `5 lakh as donations from the public.It will work parallel to the KMC. Revealing this to newsmen here on Sunday, Kamalakar said that to ensure transparency, the committee had opened a bank account in the name of the KMC commissioner and donors could directly deposit their mite into it.

He pointed out that the city of Dayton in the United State had been similarly developed with public funds.

Meanwhile, the committee launched its first activity on Sunday — that of making Karimnagar green by planting 120 saplings in the KMC’s 4th Division/Ward. Division/Ward. The committee proposed to plant 1 lakh saplings over a period of time.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by Express News Service / July 07th, 2014