Consul-General of Singapore Ajeet Singh called on Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Vishesh Gadpale on Tuesday and sought details about the specialities of the city. Senior officer of the Singapore foreign services, Singh took stock of the ongoing projects by different urban bodies in different sectors of the BMC and also apprised himself of the future plans of the BMC.
Singh also visited the historic upper lake of the State capital in the evening and was impressed by its beauty. He compared the upper lake with the river flowing through Singapore. Singh said that Bhopal is developing like Singapore in every field including public transport, infrastructural development, entertainment and others. The city would certainly get better look as special focus is made on these places of public interest. He said that Singapore’s urban planning area is less than Bhopal’s planning area but it was liberated in 1960 and is counted among the most developed cities of the world. Gadpale on behalf of BMC invited the companies of Singapore to invest in the infrastructural development schemes of the Bhopal through. The Singapore diplomat was also all praise for the cleanliness of the old and new city and was overwhelmed by the broad roads that are free from crowd. He said that Bhopal is full of natural beauty, clean and systematic city, he added.