India

Works worth Rs 18,000 crore completed in 9 ys: Minister

Pioneer News Service

UP Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Stamp and Court Registration Fees Ravindra Jaiswal said the last nine years tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been unmatched for the countrymen, especially the people of Kashi. “Ambitious Phulwaria four-lane road will be completed in July,” he said while addressing a press conference here on Friday. “During the last nine years, development works worth Rs 18,000 crore have been completed in Kashi,” he said.

According to him, apart from this, the foundation stone of development projects worth Rs 9,000 crore has been laid and the work is in progress in all these projects. “Under the inspiration of the PM, the state government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has made a historic all-round development in his City North assembly constituency and the development work is going on continuously. “Along with the public welfare schemes of the central and state governments, 597 work projects worth Rs 1333.52 lakh relating to health, roads, drinking water, sewer, electricity poles and other works were done from the year 2014 to 2023 in his constituency. He also gave the details of all the projects.

Earlier, Ravindra Jaiswal conducted a surprise inspection of the road construction being done by the PWD department from Kali Mata Mandir, Pandeypur to Bypass Ring Road under City North Vidhan Sabha constituency on Thursday night. During his inspection, he found the road is being made 2.5 metres high due to which colonies situated on the roadside will go down considerably and there will be waterlogging in the rainy season. The minister directed the PWD Chief Engineer AP Singh and Superintendent Engineer AK Singh to stop the work as well as prepare the road as per the work plan and get the road construction work done properly so that the common man does not face any problem. Corporators Sanjay Jaiswal (Ramrepur), Ashok Maurya (Pandeypur) and Madan Dubey (Khajuri) and others were also present on the occasion.  Prior to this, with the inspiration of PM Narendra Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath, Jaiswal started work related to land registry and other registration in the Registration Office located in his constituency. For construction of lift under Sugamya Bharat Yojana for common man and senior citizens and for building maintenance work under Manoram Yojana, he performed ‘bhoomi pujan’ and laid the foundation stone. He also inspected works being done online in the Registration department. Rishikesh Pandey, DOI Registration, Suresh Chandra Tripathi, IO Registration, President of Bar Council Rampravesh Singh, Arvind Singh and employees of the Registration department were present on the occasion.