Urban authorities in Uttarakhand need to accord priority to developing land banks and executing housing schemes. The State Urban Development minister Pritam Singh Panwar said this while chairing the four board meeting of the Uttarakhand Housing and Urban Development Authority (UHUDA) in Dehradun on Tuesday.
Various issues were discussed in the board meeting including the progress in master plans of various development authorities and Special Area Development Authority, one time settlement voluntary compounding scheme, merging Piran Kaliyar with Haridwar-Roorkee development area, declaring Tanakpur, Banbasa urban area as development area, physical and financial progress in regulated areas and review of works of the local authorities.
The discussions in the board meeting also focused on the zonal plan of Dehradun development master plan, Haridwar-Roorkee Development Authority master plan, review of the urban and rural planning department works, building construction and development by laws/regulation-2011 and review of schemes related to various development authorities. During the board meeting, Panwar approved the annual budget for UHUDA. In addition to this approval was also expressed for declaration of new development areas under State authority and the proposal sent to the State administration regarding structure of the State authority.
Housing secretary DS Garbyal, Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) vice chairman R Meenakshi Sundaram, Housing additional secretary V Shanmugam, Finance additional secretary Arunendra Chauhan, joint secretary Subhash Chandra, MDDA secretary Prakash Chandra Dumka, Doon Valley Special Area Development Authority secretary Girish Gunawant, Haridwar- Roorkee Devel-opment Authority secretary Nidhi Yadav, Tourism additional director AK Dwivedi, Planning joint director Dinesh Verma and other officials
were also present in the board meeting.