Signalling the groundwork for a twin-city agreement with the Chinese city of Jiaozhou, the standing committee of Rajkot Municipal Corporation on Monday cleared a proposal to set up a panel for the same.

At its weekly meeting, the standing committee cleared the proposal moved by the office of Rajkot Municipal Commissioner, Banchhanidhi Pani, urging it to get the nod of RMC general board to appoint the municipal commissioner as the main coordinator for signing the proposed twin-city agreement between Rakot and Jiaozhou.

The proposal also sought to get a green signal from the general board to authorise Rajkot mayor, chairman of the standing committee and the municipal commissioner to sign the agreement with Jiaozhou, a city in eastern China’s Shandong province.

The municipal commissioner based his proposal on a letter sent by joint secretary of urban development and urban housing department of the state government to the RMC in January this year, directing the civic body to start making preparations for signing the agreement.

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