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GMADA accepts proposal, subject to chief minister's nodConcerned their poor condition in Mohali, the Municipal Council has offered to take over the maintenance and upkeep of around 500 parks and eight community centres in the city. The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has also accepted MC's proposal but it would formally hand over the physical possession of parks and community centres once Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also the GMADA chairman, gives his final nod to the mutual arrangement.The development assumes significance as most city parks were lying neglected, with GMADA and MC failing to sort out the dispute over their maintenance and upkeep. While GMADA held MC responsible for all works in municipal limits, the latter claimed parks were sole property of GMADA and were never handed over to MC. The repeated efforts of GMADA to hand over the parks to respective residents' welfare associations or private players also did not find any takers.Making a move to end the tussle and improve condition of parks, new MC president Kulwant Singh worked out an agreement with GMADA chief administrator Vivek Partap Singh recently. According to the agreement, GMADA agreed to hand over around 500 parks spread across 25 acres of land and even green belts spread over 150 acres land in the city to the MC, for which the civic body demanded a lumpsum payment of Rs four crore, besides annual maintenance charges at the rate of Rs 1.3 per square feet.Confirming the development, MC chief told Newsline that the body would fully develop all parks and green belts, besides ensuring their regular maintenance and upkeep. "With this, we would make the city clean and green," said Kulwant Singh. As far as community centres are concerned, the MC would maintain the public places with the help of their occupancy charges, which it would start collecting after taking over their possession.At present, four of eight community centres were occupied by judicial courts and district police while remaining four were available for community services. "We intend to get the occupied community centres vacated and put them to use for community services, for which they are actually meant for," said the MC president.Audit objectionEven the audit had objected to the maintenance of parks by GMADA in municipal limits. Finance Minister Manpreet Badal had revealed this while answering a question by local MLA Balbir Sidhu during Punjab Assembly session in June 2007.
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