The Bharatiya Janata Party would turn the city into a smart, digital and green place if voted to power in the forthcoming civic polls scheduled fopr January 31, the party announced here on Tuesday. While releasing the party’s manifesto for the local civic body elections, Madhya Pradesh Higher and Technical Education Minister Umashanker Gupta told the mediapersons that Bhopal would be turned into a smart, global, digital, heritage, clean and green city.
Underlining the need for smooth traffic movement in the city, the manifesto promises a world class light metro service with the help of private partnership. The manifesto says that a blue print will be formed to provide better basic facilities to people of the city in the next 30 years under which over-bridges would be constructed. The BJP has a plan to legalise unauthorised colonies in Bhopal, Gupta said, adding that the lED lights and solar energy will be promoted in the city.
He said that urban resource centre would be formed in the city where plumbers, carpenters, electricians, mechanics and other artisans would be registered and the citizens would be able to get their services. He said that every citizen of the city would get pure drinking water including the residents of those rural areas that are recently included in the municipal limits of the state capital. He said that special team would be formed to keep vigil on the maintenance and repairing of roads. Food zones would be developed in the city besides parks and zoological park would be developed.