Ward councillor, four citizens to be part of each panelCommittees formed to manage Panchkula community centres

Tribune News Service

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Panchkula, October 29

The Panchkula Municipal Corporation today released a list of committees constituted for the management of community centres in 19 localities of the city. Each committee includes the ward councillor and four citizens.

The committees have been formed for the community centres at the Mansa Devi Complex (MDC), Sector 4, MDC, Sector 5, MDC, Sector 6, Sector 7, Sector 9, Sector 10, Sector 11, Sector 12, Sector 12-A, Sector 17, Sector 19, Sector 20 (Old), Sector 20 (New), Sector 25, Sector 26, Sector 23, Sector 27 and Sector 28.

On June 30 earlier this year, the General House of the Municipal Corporation had passed a resolution to form community centre management committees.

The House had also slashed the booking rates for the community centres.

While Rs5,000 was fixed for community centres in villages, Rs11,000 and Rs21,000 were fixed for medium and big community centres, respectively.

Several RWAs in the city said most community centres had maintenance issues and some of these were occupied by different departments for other purposes.

They said they could only hope for a change for the better with the constitution of the committees for the management of the community centres.

The key issues in community centres are poor infrastructure, cleanliness and poor condition or non-operational toilets.

Meanwhile, Haryana Speaker and local MLA Gian Chand Gupta had recently announced that the community centres in the city would be named after martyrs.

He had said a resolution in this regard would be brought up during the next General House meeting of the civic body.