Raipur Municipal Corporation Council gave its green light in principle to the proposal of upgrading the status of Raipur Municipal Corporation to ‘Mahanagarpalika’ after the formation of that the number of wards in the state capital will go to 100 in place of existing 70 whereas the number of Zones will also go up to 12 in place of the existing 8. Besides, the MIC also in principle gave its approval to annulling the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Raipur Development Authority under Ganj Mandi Scheme.
Notably, a meeting of Raipur Municipal Council MIC was held on Friday at RMC Headquarters in presence of all members of the Mayor in Council. It was chaired by Mayor Dr Kiranmayee Nayak and was also attended by Additional Commissioner Dr J R Soni among others.
In the meeting the Mayor put the proposal of granting Mahanagarpalika status to Raipur Municipal Corporation before the MIC members. The MIC granted approval in principle to the proposal. After this it would be discussed in general body meeting of RMC and after its approval would be sent to state administration for final approval. According to the proposal the number of wards will go up to 100 while the number of municipal zones would increase to 12. In another major achievement for RMC, the MIC members also in principle gave approval for annulling the MoU signed with Raipur Development Authority for construction of building under Ganj Mandi Scheme which was hanging fire for quite some time. Now, this MoU will also end after discussing and approval by General Body Meeting of the Corporation.