Jamshedpur, Aug. 10: The East Singhbhum district administration is mooting a proposal to include more areas under notified area committees, where municipal facilities would be extended to the residents.

According to district administration sources, the need to shift some areas from the rural panchayat and bring it under the ambit of the Notified Area Committees (NAC) arose as the population in these areas have crossed a whopping 50,000.

The areas under consideration include Ghatshila, Jadugoda-Rakha, Musabani, Parsudih, Bagbera, Kitadih and some other fringe areas of the steel city.

The deputy commissioner of East Singhbhum, Nitin Madan Kulkarni, said the district administration has already directed the respective block development officers to forward a proposal in this regard.

?The residents of Parsudih had earlier sought the intervention of the district administration for their exclusion from the rural panchayat. Besides, there is no logic for Bagbera, an area adjoining to the Tatanagar railway station, to be falling under the rural panchayat. The residents there have also applied to us to include their area under Jugsalai municipality,? said Kulkarni to The Telegraph.

According to Kulkarni, the decision to include Ghatshila, in the proposal, to be included under notified areas has been taken keeping in consideration its increasing population, proximity to a railway station, (where almost all important trains halt), the importance of the region on the tourism map along with the up-market facilities like the presence of cinemas and cable television that are available there.

?The district administration has to arrange for fogging machines from other civic bodies even to control the growing menace of mosquitoes. The residents in the area deserve more facilities,? Kulkarni added.

Chakulia town (under Ghatshila subdivision) has already been given the status of Notified Area Committee in 1984. But due to the lackadaisical attitude of the district administration and state government (urban development department) the public ledger account could not be opened to facilitate the special officers to utilise the earmarked funds for the development of urban area.

?We communicated with the urban development department several times requesting them to open a public ledger account for the Chakulia Notified Area Committee (CNAC) but our pleas fell on deaf ears,? said a senior government official.

According to the sources at the urban development department, the department considering a possibility of according the steel city the status of a municipal corporation area under which other city outskirts will also be included.

?Under such circumstances entire Parsudih, Bagbera, Kitadih, Ghurabandha etc would fall under the municipal corporation area,? said Kulkarni.