Chief Secretary, Alok Ranjan, laid stress on beautification of lucknow, the city of Nawabs, and gave necessary direction to take work in this regard on top priority.
Giving instruction for renovation and repairing of historical monuments on priority as part of beautification of lucknow, Alok Ranjan instructed for construction of metalled road on both sides of Gomti river at earliest to enable smooth traffic flow. He said that proper lighting of historical buildings should be arranged in the city. The Chief Secretary asked for preparation of comprehensive plan for beautification of Gomti river at the earliest by the Committee headed by Principal Secretary, Housing.
Chief Secretary gave above direction while chairing a meeting on beautification of lucknow city here on Tuesday. He said that construction of main gate of historical Sheesh Mahal in old lucknow, beautification of Satkhanda Park and Picture Gallery Park should be completed by coming December. He asked for beautification of remaining 25% of Sheesh Mahal pond on Durga Devi Marg in Husainabad ward to be completed by December. It was informed that 75% work has been already completed on the pond. He said that road from tourist spot of Husainabad Teelewali Masjid to Jama Masjid should be widened and beautified and beautification of Clock Tower, Ghanta-ghar pond and Picture Gallery complex must be completed by March 2015.
Ranjan further said that Irrigation department should complete the work involving construction of Mehendi ghat on right embankment of Gomti river in upstream of Hardinge bridge at 1.870 Km in lucknow as well as widening of embankment within the specified time-period. He said that lucknow Development Authority (lDA) should increase the height of boundary wall and fix gate and grills of Teelewali Masjid and CC work should be undertaken by lDA on internal roads of Aishbagh Eidgah along with painting of boundary wall. Besides Alok Ranjan, the meeting was also attended by Principal Secretary, Housing, Sadakant, Divisional Commissioner of lucknow, Mahesh Kumar Gupta, Vice-Chairman of lDA, Bhuvnesh Kumar, District Magistrate of lucknow, Rajshekhar along with senior officials.