The Committee on Government Undertakings of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly conducted a physical inspection of the ABD area of Ranchi Smart City on Monday and expressed satisfaction over the construction work being done by the Smart City. Under the chairmanship of MLA Saryu Roy, the committee first reached Jupmi Building and inquired about the master plan, projects, expenditure, budget allocation of Ranchi Smart City and the status of Ranchi in comparison to other smart cities of the country. Earlier, CEO of Ranchi Smart City Corporation Amit Kumar welcomed MLAs Saryu Roy, Mathura Prasad Mahato and DAG Ajay Kumar.
Amit Kumar told the members that Ranchi is one of the leading cities in the country in the implementation of the schemes being run by the Smart City Mission and Jharkhand is at the first position in the category of states under the Smart City Scheme. He said that the construction of infrastructure here is world class. Special attention has been given to environmental protection, water harvesting and open space in the construction of the city. Answering all the questions of MLA Saryu Roy, he assured that there will be no compromise with quality in this construction. The infrastructure work in the smart city will be completed in the next one or two months. On this occasion, Rakesh Kumar Nandkyolyar, General Manager Technical of Smart City, kept the updated status of Smart City projects before the committee through a powerpoint presentation. Along with this, the cost of the projects and the construction companies involved in the construction of various projects were also informed.
The committee also inquired about the Command Control and Communication Center of Ranchi Smart City. He was told that with the help of this command center based on state-of-the-art technology, the surveillance and management of the city has become better than before. The CEO informed about the equipment installed under it and its benefits. Roy said that the command centre is helping various departments, so there should be revenue sharing for its self-sustainability and work should be done to make it more public utility.
Due to his pre-scheduled program, MLA Mathura Prasad Mahato left for Dhanbad from the Command Center itself, but Roy took physical information about the development happening in the ABD area and praised it. On this occasion, Project Manager of L&T JD Tripathi informed about the entire work plan.
Chairman of the Committee on Government Undertakings of Vidhansabha, Saryu Roy said that better work has been done in both the infrastructure of the smart city or the command center, but better operation and maintenance can be done in the future, so this work is being done as monitoring of Ranchi Smart City. Only one should do it. He said that in the arrangements made for drinking water in this new city, it should be kept in mind that contaminated substances should not reach the people in the water. He also appreciated the plantation program and emphasized on water harvesting. Kumar said that work is being done on the zero discharge concept here.
In the programme, along with two MLAs, CEO of Ranchi Smart City Amit Kumar, Joint Secretary of Legislative Assembly Santosh Kumar Singh, DAG Ajay Kumar from AG office, City SP of Ranchi, Traffic DSP, JUIDCO PDT Gopal, Smart City GM Rakesh Kumar Smart City CFO Jyoti Pushp, JUIDCO GM Vinay Kumar Rai, and others were present.
