During her tenure of four years, Bhopal Mayor Krishna Gaur has provided the citizens with several facilities including ‘My Bus’, Foot Over Bridge (FOB) and Narmada water supply to the residents.
While talking about her achievements, Gaur who completed four years in office on Thursday told The Pioneer that the corporation would focus on completing the pending works within the time limit. She also aspires to make the State capital Wi-Fi enabled, so that the internet facility could be availed at railway stations and bus stands.
Notably, Mayor Krishna Gaur during her working tenure provided the citizens with the facilities for their welfare. The 24 kilometer BRTS corridor, proper transportation facilities, My Bus scheme with air-conditioned and non air-condition buses, online facilities for bill payments have already been implemented during her tenure. She has taken steps towards the beautification of the lakes in the city as well.
Talking about the works she still needs to complete, she said, “As we have already begun the construction of flyovers in the city, we are planning to finish the remaining work as soon as possible.” Regarding proposed plans she said that after constructing Foot Over Bridge (FOB) at Jyoti Talkies, the Corporation is further planning to construct FOB in different areas of the city.
The FOBs would be constructed so that the people should not have to face problems in crossing the roads.
Mayor assumed the office on December 27, 2009. In 2011, the citizens were provided with the 24x7 water supply of Narmada River and in the same year 600 kilometer new pipelines were laid with 62 water tanks being installed and were connected with the distribution network.
Commenting over this Mayor said, “We are further planning to lay new pipelines and connect the water supply of Narmada River to distribution network so that the citizens could get water round the clock without any problem.”
During her working tenure citizens are facilitated with 205 low-floor buses which run in the 24 kilometer long BRTS Corridors. About the transportation facilities she said, “We are planning to include more low-floor buses so that people could enjoy the transportation facilities more appropriately.”
While talking about the slum-free city, she said, “We have constructed as many as 15,000 houses for urban poor and 6,000 of them have already been allocated to the beneficiaries and soon we are going to allocate the other urban poor with houses as soon as possible. Moreover the damaged roads would be repaired of both external and internal areas of the city for which the corporation has been given Rs 125 crores from the CM infrastructure scheme.”
In the last four years of her working tenure the city has been updated in IT sector as well. During her tenure, she has provided the citizens to deposit their taxes online. Besides, e-tendering has also been implemented successfully.
Steps are been taken for the conservation of the lakes and also to maintain the cleanliness in the city. She says, “The door-to-door garbage collection scheme is an achievement in itself and we would try to update this facility to more extent. Further, we will take steps towards beautifying the city so that Bhopal could be counted among the idol cities of the country.”