Minister for local Government in Punjab, Anil Joshi on Saturday reviewed the funds plan requirement of various infrastructure works for all the towns of the State. After the meeting, Joshi said that it has been estimated that funds to the tune of Rs8085 crore are required to provide 100% basic urban civic infrastructure of Water Supply, Sewerage, STP, Restoration/Upgradation of Road, Street light, Solid Waste Management etc in all 165 Towns in the State.
Out of these funds, the funds to the tune of Rs876 crore are required for water supply, Rs2623 crore for Sewerage, Rs1374 crore for STP, Rs314 crore for restoration of the damaged roads due to the water supply and sewerage, Rs23 crore for repair of old water supply and sewerage machinery, Rs1588 Crore for upgradation, repairs and for new roads, Rs279 crore for solid waste management, Rs163 crore for street lights and Rs845 crore for other infrastructures and Operation and Maintenance related works for the works in urban local bodies.
The Minister said that recently State Government has made special efforts and decided to raise additional resources with the increase imposition of infrastructure development fees on diesel, petrol, additional duty on electricity and on sale of immovable properties. These additional resources would be made available for undertaking these infrastructure works in urban and rural Areas. In addition, the funds of GoI, in the ministry of urban development from their flagships schemes like Smart city and AMRUT will be converged with the State Government resources to fund these infrastructure works.