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Louis Manuel Menezes, 89, who played a pioneering relation successful municipality readying and improvement and slum betterment successful Chennai, passed distant connected May 14.
Former IAS serviceman M.G. Devasahayam said helium worked unneurotic with Mr. Menezes arsenic a squad and was portion of the High Court Appointed Monitoring Committee for the CMDA to curb unauthorised construction. The committee laid retired elaborate guidelines connected sanctioning gathering plans, approvals and process without immoderate hold and corruption. He besides commenced the digitalisation of CMDA files.
Former CMDA Chief Planner K. Kumar, said: “He was a pioneer successful the city’s integrated municipality improvement with World Bank funding. He successfully implemented the cross-subsidy conception for municipality lodging successful Chennai. He joined the CMDA successful 1977. He, on with the past vice-chairman M.G. Balasubramaniam and the past Senior Planner G. Dattatri, implemented municipality improvement projects connected a ample scale. He was instrumental successful launching Madras Urban Development Project (MUDP) with World Bank assistance. Thanks to his initiatives, thousands of mediocre families successful slums of Chennai got affordable lodging done transverse subsidy.”
The occurrence of this task was cardinal to the formulation and implementation of different flagship projects, MUDP-II and TNUDP-I, TNUDP-II and TNUDP-III with World Bank assistance. He besides had a stint arsenic the caput to the authorities successful the Housing and Urban Development Department, said Mr. Kumar.
