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NT Bureau
Chennai, Mar 13:

        The Chennai Corporation, in the budget presented yesterday, has proposed to setup a new Integrated Primary Health Centre in each division of the Corporation to provide maternity, child health care, treatment for malaria, TB and diarrhoea under one roof.

        Both male and female doctors would be appointed at the centre. At present there as many as 115 primary health centres. The system would be put in place in the remaining 40 divisions in different phases. There has been an increase in the allocation of funds for health, which numbers Rs 2 crore this fiscal.

        The Civic body also promised to issue birth certificates within 24 hours of the child's birth. The Corporation is on an average issuing 1.2 lakh certificates every year. It also allocated Rs 50 lakh for computerising old documents stored in the birth and death department.

        The corporation announced a revolutionary scheme for social upliftment of Vettiyans by which they would be hereafter called as 'burial ground assistants.' And they would be brought under the pay scale of the local bodies. There are as many as 195 licensed Vettiyans working in 38 burial grounds in the City.

        To control the increasing menace of stray dogs, the corporation has proposed to setup a maintenance centre for diseased and injured dogs. Two vehicles would be brought at a cost of Rs 18 lakh.

        In order to improve the solid waste management programme in the city, door to door collection and source segregation would be extended to this year. The recylcing plant for compost production would be setup at Rs 10 crore at Kodungaiyur. And this plant will come up on a build-operate-transfer-basis. A compound wall would constructed around the dumping yard in North Chennai at a cost of Rs 9 crore.

        Apart from the construction of a new flyover at a cost of Rs 40 crore, the Civic body also planned to construct foot over bridges with escalators at 15 places across the city.