Udupi: The City Municipal Corporation has bagged the best CMC practice award for its initiative “Improved financial and Energy efficiency in Water Supply” at a function organised by the Department of Urban Development, the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) and City Managers’ Association, Karnataka on Friday, March 13 at the Vikasa Soudha, Bangalore. The award carries a cash prize of Rupees One lakh.
The Vijayapura Town Municipal Council won the second best TMC (Maintenance of Record Room) category while Bantwal Town Municipal council (Property Tax Collection through SAS by Bantwal) won third best TMC. The Vijayapura TMC was given cash prizes of Rs 75,000 and Bantwal TMC got Rs 50,000.
The Hubli-Dharawad Municipal Corporation won the first prize in City Corporation category while Mangalore City Corporation won second prize. HDMC and Mangalore City Corporation where given cash prizes of Rs One lakh and Rs 75000 respectively.
State-run organisations such as the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation secured Best Practices for its initiative on implementation of Automated Electronic Driving Test System. The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation won the second prize for “Online recruitment System” in the Line Department category. The BTP won third prize for BTRAC 2010 system.
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport and BTP were given cash prizes of Rs One Lakh, Rs 75,000 and Rs 50, 000 respectively.
Vinay Kumar Sorake (Minister for Urban Development) and Qamarul Islam (Minister for Municipal Administration, Dept of Public Enterprises, Minorities Welfare, Haj and Wakf, Govt. of Karnataka) presented the awards. Laxminarayana (Commissioner of BBMP) and Manjula (Director for Municipal Administration) were also present.