Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Mayor Bonthu Rammohan and Commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy visited New Delhi to participate in Municipal Council meet and to study the best practices of Delhi city in providing civic amenities. The whirlwind tour, which was headed by Mayor also accompanied by a few other officials from the city’s civic body was made on Tuesday.

The Mayor’s team from the Hyderabad studied the civic amenities in New Delhi especially some of its best practices in terms of the maintenance of toilets, footpaths, bus shelters, parking facilities and public amenities.

Briefing about his Delhi tour to media persons, Mayor B Rammohan said, his team, which also included Telangana’s representative Tejawat Ram Chandrudu in New Delhi, undertook the tour according to the orders of the Minister KT Rama Rao to study the public amenities especially those that are being provided for the public for free of cost in the national capital.

The Mayor’s team from the Hyderabad studied the civic amenities in New Delhi especially some of its best practices in terms of the maintenance of toilets, footpaths, bus shelters, parking facilities and public amenities.

The Mayor said they had a meeting with the chairman of New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Naresh Kumar to discuss the implementation of Sanitary programs, providing the public amenities and revenue collections and redressal of public issues etc. in Delhi. The Hyderabad team learnt that 95 percent of houses in New Delhi have solar power generating panels on their roof tops which was made mandatory for new constructions. The multi-level parking facility on Delhi was appreciable and it would be implemented in Hyderabad also, said the Mayor.

The meeting was attended by GHMC Additional Commissioner Shankaraiah, Chief City Planner Devendar Reddy, CE Suresh Kumar, Prof.Srinivas Chary, Major Shiva Kumar and Executive Director of RTC Purushottam.