UDF planning to revive development authorities

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The UDF Government is planning to revive the development authorities scrapped by the LDF Government.Ind..

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The UDF Government is planning to revive the development authorities scrapped by the LDF Government.
Industries and Urban Affairs Minister P K Kunhalikutty told the Assembly on Wednesday that the UDF indeed had plans to revive the development authorities dissolved by the LDF Government. The decision was based on the UDF policy, he said in reply to questions by MLAs E P Jayarajan, C K Sadasivan, Saju Paul and S Rajendran.

He denied that the revival would hamper the decentralisation process in the state.

Now they will find themselves redeployed once again.

In fact, all existing authorities except the Greater Cochin Development Authority and the Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority were dissolved and merged with the local bodies concerned. This included authorities at Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad and Kozhikode.

The Kerala Municipal and Corporation Staff Union, a Left trade union, has opposed the UDF move to bring back the authorities. ''It is against the very essence of decentralisation,'' KMCSU general secretary K Jayadevan said.