Focusing on four important components — housing, transportation, sanitation and water supply, including health services — Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Sunday said the State Government is working towards streamlining all essential services necessary for uniform urban growth and development.
Das who was addressing the gathering during the launch of nine mega urban infrastructure projects worth Rs 243.60 crore added that only through the equal participation of public and State machinery, the State Government can fulfill the vision of bringing the cities of Jharkhand at par with other planned cities.
The programme was organised under the aegis of Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (JUIDCO) and Department of Urban Development, Planning and Housing.
The CM in the presence of Minister, Department of Urban Development, Housing and Planning, CP Singh, Principal Secretary, Department of Urban Development, Arun Singh, Ranchi MP Ramtahal Choudhary, MlA Jitu Charan Ram, Chairperson, State Minority Commission, Kamaal Khan, Mayor Asha lakra, Deputy Mayor, Sanjiv Vijayawargia, Development Commissioner Amit Khare, Principal Secretary to CM, Sunil Barnwal and other dignitaries promised housing for all deprived people by 2022.
“After settling down the displaced residents of Islamnagar, the State Government will settle over 8,000 displaced public of HEC. Attempts are made to at least build 1.5 lakh houses more for homeless people. Similarly, efforts are being made to rationalise inept urban transportation services as well,”
Das added.
Taking up some other vital issues like electrification, water supply, solid waste management, the CM said that the emphasis should be on adopting some innovative measures for recycling the waste materials for generating electricity and installing waste water treatment plant for utilising it for different agriculture purposes in the time of crisis. Meanwhile, the CM urged to the public to brainstorm on different measures to curtail the growing population to keep a check on increasing health problems.
In the presence of all, the CM inaugurated two most awaited projects for the residents of State Capital which includes road widening and beautification task from Raj Bhawan to Kanta Toli covering 2.88 Km involving Rs 92.99 crore and housing project for the residents of Islam Nagar at a cost of Rs 30.94 crore for 444 displaced people. Both these project are expected to get complete in two years. Similarly, three septage projects at Giridih worth Rs 25.05 crore, Chas, Bokaro covering Rs 39.45 crore, including Hazaribagh involving Rs 34.78 lakh was launched on Sunday.
Simultaneously, online inauguration of two crematoriums at Medininagar and Deogarh to be constructed at a cost of Rs 1.75 crore and Rs 3.99 crore was launched. Besides this, Kalilekha Kusth Aashram (lepers’ shelter home) and Q Complex at Basukinath with state of the art facilities involving Rs 4.54 crore and Rs 10.71 crore, likely to get complete in one year was also officially inaugurated.
CP Singh on the occasion said that besides all these mega projects for boosting urban infrastructure, attempts are also being made to increase the green covers within the city. Meanwhile, Principal Secretary, Department of Urban Development, Arun Singh, presenting the status of civil construction work taken up by the Department said, “Under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY) scheme per day 100 houses are being build up. By far, around 3,500 houses had been constructed. Construction of one lakh houses more under the scheme has been undertaken.”
“Utilising the budget amount (Rs 3,300 crore) allocated to the department, around 13,000 posts in municipal corporations has been created to deal with human resource crisis, construction of Dada-dadi parks and multipurpose cultural complexes in every city, urban haats at Ramgarh, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Deogarh, Hazaribagh and Parasnath is on the cards,” Singh added.