Punjab Housing and Urban Development Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria on Sunday urged the Department officials to work in a tireless manner so that the State could be ushered to new era of development.
The Minister, presiding over a maiden meeting with the Department’s higher officials to take stock of the ongoing development works and other issues, exhorted them to ensure that no illegal colonies were developed in the future and asked them to work for providing world class urban development in the State.
Discussing the pace of development works in area falling under jurisdiction of Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA), the issue of Kajuali Water Works Project was also discussed. Sarkaria directed the concerned engineering staff to complete the project on priority so that the residents of Mohali could get ample water supply at the earliest.
During the meeting, the officials of the Department’s Country and Town Planning Wing told that they were working in the direction of preparing master plans of various cities in the State.
So far, 43 master plans covering 100 towns had been prepared and of these, 25 master plans had been made revenue-based and GIS-enabled to facilitate the land owners to know use of their land, the officials explained.
The process of issuance of change of land use (CLU) and approval of layout plans and building plans, the work executed by the CTP Wing was also explained to the Minister.
GLADA (Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority) Chief Administrator Parminder Singh Gill gave details about the status of upcoming International Airport at Halwara, while Amritsar Development Authority’s Chief Administrator Komal Mittal shared the details of Urban Haat Project which is being developed as Tourist and Food Junction on PPP mode.
In addition, the Chief Administrators of Development Authorities also presented the status of development in various urban estates across the State besides sharing information about the projects lined up to be developed in near future.
The Department’s Additional Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan briefed the Minister about various measures adopted in the Department in the last two years aimed at public welfare, besides various issues proving hurdle in development to the notice of the Minister to which the latter assured that he will take up the same with his cabinet colleagues for resolving.