The State Urban Development and Housing Department of Tuesday revealed its achievements on completion of four years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much ambitious infrastructure projects. The department officials on the occasion highlighted the work progress in PM Awas Yojana, AMRUT and Smart Cities which has aimed in transforming urban landscape in State.
Under the Prime Minister Awas Yojana, the State Government had approved proposal for construction of 1.60 lakh houses under PM Awas Yojana and out of which 48,000 houses has been completed. At the same time construction work of 43,822 is going on at war footing pace. THE PM Awas Yojana introduced in June 2015 is an interest subsidy scheme for purchase/ construction/ extension/ improvement of house to cater economically poor section of society.
State urban development secretary, Ajay Kumar Singh said, “On the completion of four years of PM infrastructure project, the Jharkhand Government has carried out various infrastructure projects for construction of houses, out of 35 projects in AMRUT eight to ten projects of drinking water and sanitation s going on. Similarly, work in Smart City project in Ranchi too has been started.”
Under the scheme of housing to all, construction of 218 houses for displaced people at Islam Nagar and 175 houses at Birsa Munda Smriti park is at final stage. Similarly, 64 housing units at Deoghar under Matra Ashram Awasaiya Yojana has been completed. Jharkhand has also been selected among six States under Multi Storey Light House Project. As per the project, G+8 light house (building) will be constructed at Bajra at an estimated area of 5.7 acres.
The secretary claimed that as per housing to all schemes, civic bodies have been asked to identify slum areas and carry out construction of houses for slum dwellers.
Similarly under AMRUT Yojana, seven cities with population more than 1 lakh has been selected and work on drinking water and sewerage pipeline is going on at these cities.
Similarly work on Rs 10,500-crore Ranchi Smart City Project has commenced. The project includes transportation, power and water supply systems. As per area based development (ABD) component of the smart city, construction of smart roads, transport system, waste water management, storm water drainage, plantations, smart street lighting, power infrastructure and water supply systems has to be done at Rs 514 crore in Dhurwa-Jagannathpur area.