Secretary, Urban Development and Housing Department, Vinay Kumar Choubey has said that all the municipal bodies should speed up the progress of schemes related to cleanliness of cities and providing houses to the needy. The Secretary said this while addressing the meeting convened with all the municipal bodies in virtual mode on Tuesday. Choubey reviewed the schemes related to legacy waste, solid waste, FSTP, STP, door to door garbage collection and its execution in all the municipal bodies. Along with that, the Secretary also reviewed the schemes related to Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, AMRUT Yojana and 15th Finance Commission.
The Secretary said that all the civic bodies should execute the tender for legacy waste remediation and issue the work order in the next 15 days. Ranchi Municipal Corporation should select a good company for door to door garbage collection, if additional amount is needed for this, the government will bear it. Legacy waste should not be seen anywhere in Ranchi after August 2024.
He said that JUIDCO should prepare DPR of Ranchi and Dhanbad sewerage project soon. He also asked to complete the work of the proposed and under-construction plant under solid waste management at the earliest. He said to take the help of the district administration and department in environmental clearance and land related problems. In cities where concessionaires are not available even after repeated tenders, the directorate should club and tender together so that a good company can come.
In the city where the sewerage scheme has been completed, ensure that every household's waste water STP line is connected. In the DPR being prepared for the new scheme, it should be ensured that no part of the city is left out. JUIDCO engineers should visit municipal bodies, especially Giridih, Chas and Jamshedpur at present to see these schemes themselves.
On this occasion, the Director of the State Urban Development Agency Amit Kumar directed all the municipal bodies to speed up the implementation of schemes for sanitation and drinking water, these schemes are included in the priority list of the government. He said that the State Government and the Chief Minister and Departmental Secretary have the vision that every city should be clean and basic facilities should be available to every citizen without any effort.
The Secretary also reviewed the ongoing schemes for private participation in the state as well as the scheme for affordable housing. On this occasion, the Secretary instructed all the municipal bodies that due to non-availability of shares of the beneficiaries under the Affordable Housing, the beneficiaries are not able to buy houses, so you should talk to the bankers and organize camps to make loans available. He also said that there should be no delay in payment of funds for the construction of houses being built in private partnership.
Director, Directorate of Urban Administration Aditya Anand urged all the bodies that if you pay the beneficiaries on time, then they will be able to construct that house in time. There is no shortage of money with the state government, the amount you need, will be made available. He also expressed displeasure over the progress made so far against the approved schemes.
The 175 displaced families of the Matkuria flyover have to be settled on the land identified there by developing the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and complete the DPR and other technical works regarding this.
He asked to make a plan regarding the beautification of the place by renovating a water source in the MADA area identified by the Municipal Commissioner, Dhanbad. Initiate action towards the selection of the company for the installation of the Command Control and Communication Center to be built in Dhanbad.
In the virtual meeting, Municipal Commissioners of all Municipal Bodies, Executive Officers, Special Officers, JUIDCO, all the Project Directors and General Managers and other officials of SUDA, Deputy Director Krishna Kumar and other officials of the Urban Development Department were present.