New four-lane roads will be constructed in Bilaspur for ensuring proper development of the city, stated State Urban Administration Minister Amar Agrawal while addressing a press conference here on Saturday.
He also launched a mobile app through which people could get in touch with their public representative.
“For developing Bilaspur into a big city, four lane roads will be constructed from Nehur Chowk to Uslapur Chowk; from Gandhi Chowk to lalkhadan Chowk to Tarbahar Chowk to Sanjay Taran Pushkar till Indu Chowk. The tender process for these roads has already been completed,” he told reporters.
He further informed that behind Science College, a helipad and convention hall would be constructed for which Rs 21 crore would be spent. “All kinds of public programmes and fairs that are now held inside the city will be conducted in the convention hall,” he said, while adding that two mega projects of the city which includes the city bus terminal that costs about Rs 11 crore and an auditorium that has been completed by spending Rs 21 crore would be soon inaugurated at the hands of Chief Minister Raman Singh.
The Minister who recently had taken a tour of various wards of Bilaspur Municipal Corporation (BMC) along with the Mayor accepted that roads, power and water supply were the issues of concern.
While expressing the need for change in current sanitation system in the city, he said that tenders for door-to-door garbage collection have been floated.