Urban Development and Housing department Secretary Ajoy Kumar Singh today said that it should be first and foremost priority of the municipal bodies to provide water to all the households of the urban areas. During the review meeting of the departments, the secretary met State level municipalities, in which the progress of nearly a dozen issues and schemes related to public and development was reviewed.
Speaking on the occasion Singh said, “No shortage of money will be there for the implementation of the schemes, where the work is being done on water supply from some time earlier. Complete the work on time.” He also instructed to those municipal bodies where the work has not been started till now they start the work at its earliest.
The Secretary further said, “The second prioritisation is cleanliness. People should be aware about hygiene, solid and liquid waste management. There is need to maintain position of Jharkhand in the 2018 Clean Survey.” During the meeting, the Secretary directed to make maximum efforts towards linking more urban poor families with scheme of providing affordable housing under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
Apart from it, all the municipal bodies were given this task to arrange shelter homes for urban homeless within 10 days where all state of the art systems are present, Shelter Home should be completely like Dharamshala, where drinking, water, good beds, good canteens and heater and geyser should be arranged. Even for this, the government will not let the shortage of money.
Apart from it the town bodies were given many tasks and instructions including to make the cremation ground more convenient, to hand over utility certificate of urban transport and civil facility to the department, speeding up urban poverty eradication and social welfare schemes, ding urban land management and acquisition as well as work towards institutional development and capacity building .
It was told to the municipalities that if there was any big plan for urban planning and project management. On the occasion, Singh said that if any municipal corporation is making a DPR of the big scheme, first of all it should get approval from concerned department.
Various issues related to the implementation of National Urban Livelihood Mission, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Namami Gange, Swachh Bharat Mission, Amrit Yojana, schemes implementation under the 14th Finance Commission and proposals, revenue collection and map were discussed during the meeting.
Director, Directorate of Urban Administration Ashish Singhmar gave information about the efforts of the first and third components of the Prime Minister’s Housing Scheme and instructed the municipalities to work in this direction.
During the meeting, Director SUDA, Amit Kumar discussed the preparations and preparedness of the municipalities with the Clean Survey 2019.
Municipal Commissioner of Ranchi Manoj Kumar, Special Secretary BPL Das and Joint Secretary AK Ratan, Deputy Secretary Manisha Joseph Tigga and City Manager of all the municipal bodies and Judeo officials were present.