Proposed Silchar Municipal Corporation to have 50 wards

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SILCHAR: The proposed Silchar Municipal Corporation will include 12 gaon panchayats apart from the existing 28 wards, informed a source in the district administration. According to the proposal from the district administration, which had a detailed discussion on January 12, to the State government, the corporation area will have an expansion of almost 110 square kilometres covering the suburbs of the present town.

The State Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal for upgrading Silchar Municipal Board to a municipal corporation. The government had asked the Deputy Commissioner of Cachar to complete the process of upgrading within two months. The government had already decided to hold all the civic body elections by March 10. However, election of Silchar Municipal Corporation would take a few more months as all the formalities had to be completed first.

Minister Parimal Suklabaidya informed that the Deputy Commissioner would convene an all-party meeting and on the basis of the proposal, taken in the meeting, the expansion as well as delimitation would be finalized.

Meanwhile, Silchar MLA Deepayan Chakraborty said, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Guardian Minister Ashok Singhal took a leading role in the entire process.

On the other hand, Congress, while welcoming the Cabinet decision, said that before finalizing the expanded map of the proposed corporation, the administration should have taken all the opposition parties into confidence.

A source in the administration informed that the 12 GP areas which would be included are Ambicapur, Ghongoor, Meherpur, Tarapur, Srikona, Dudhpatil, Choto Dudhpatil, Machhughat, Rongpur, Ramnagar, Kanakpur and a part of Nagatilla. The present 28 ward Silchar town will now have 45 to 50 wards. Each ward will cover eight to ten thousand people.

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