Takes stock
of projects for Housing, Urban Transport, and Srinagar Smart City Mission
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- Directs
for achieving saturation of Centrally Sponsored and Social Security Schemes;100
% AADHAR seeding of Beneficiaries
- Deputy
Commissioner to review all upcoming developmental projects and to fix
reasonable timelines for their completion
Srinagar: Lieutenant
Governor Manoj Sinha took a detailed review of the overall developmental
scenario of Srinagar district in meeting at Civil Secretariat Srinagar here
today. He took stock of the various developmental projects being undertaken by
different agencies and the impact of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes being
implemented in the district.
Those present in the meeting
included Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam; Principal Secretary to Lt Governor,
Bipul Pathak; Sh. Dheeraj Gupta Principal Secretary to Government, Housing and
Urban Development Department; Sh. PK Pole, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir;
Sh. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Deputy
Commissioner, Srinagar; Sh. Syed Abid Rasheed Shah, Chief Executive Officer,
ERA; Sh. Gazanfar Ali, Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation; Dr. Bashir
Ahmad Lone, Vice-Chairman, Srinagar Development Authority (SDA), Chief
Engineers, Heads of departments, and other senior officials from various
departments.
At the outset, the Deputy
Commissioner, Srinagar, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary gave a PowerPoint presentation
outlining the brief profile of the district and various developmental
indicators to the Lt Governor. He also informed the Lt Governor about the
status of various centrally sponsored schemes being implemented in the
district.
He also briefed the Lt
Governor about various innovations and milestones achieved by the district
administration. He informed the meeting that 10 Modern Revenue offices are
getting ready by the end of September, besides achieving 100% completion of
Jamabandi updation and 89% digitization of the same to date. He stated that
specific interventions have been made in education and health sector to improve
the overall scenario in the district. 25 smart schools have been established and
work is going on in additional 50 schools for smart classrooms. Further, 5 PHCs have been developed as Smart Hospitals
and at present 4000 bedded COVID Care Centers have been established. Laying
stress on Grievance Redressal Mechanism, the district has established the UT’s
first IVRS Call center for public grievance redressal in which around 12000
tickets stand generated to this date and more than 8300 issues related to
services have been resolved.
The Lt Governor directed for
immediate capacity enhancement of COVID care beds and called for achieving 100%
saturation in all Centrally Sponsored and Social Security Schemes so that
larger population can avail the maximum benefits out of these schemes and
programmes. He also directed to ensure that 100 % payment with Aadhaar linkage
is done to benefit the beneficiaries under Social Security Schemes.
He exhorted upon the officers
to lay special focus on improving the prompt service delivery mechanism for the
timely disposal of public grievances. Every possibility should be explored in
meeting the developmental expectations of the people, he remarked.
Later, the Lt Governor took
stock of the various projects for Housing, Urban Transport, and Srinagar Smart
City Mission.
Sh. Dheeraj Gupta gave a
detailed presentation of the various ongoing projects being executed by field
agencies of the Housing and Urban Development Department. He briefed the Lt
Governor about the new Townships coming up in twin capital cities of Jammu
& Srinagar and the plan to construct One Lakh houses in each of the two
Metropolitan Regions. He informed that the requisite Institutional Revamp has
been undertaken and the two new MRDAs have been notified for planned &
coordinated development of the two capital cities. 8 locations in Srinagar MRDA,
with a potential of 1.36 Lakh dwelling units have been identified already.
The meeting was also informed
that DPRs for the two Light Rail Transit Systems for the two capital Cities has
been finalized and the execution of Jammu & Srinagar Mass Rapid Transit
Corporations (MRTCs) has been proposed through DMRC.
Taking note of the delays in
the execution of developmental projects, the Lt Governor called for a formal
policy for incentivizing the timely completion of projects. He also directed
the Principal Secretary to Government, Housing and Urban Development Department
to come up with Comprehensive Drainage Plans for Twin Capital Cities even if
the work has to be taken up in phases. He stressed that prospective needs be
taken into account while formulating the plans.
On Smart City projects, the Lt
Governor was apprised that 15 projects have been completed, 20 are ongoing and
4 stand tendered. Work has been started
on integrated command and control center to cover issues related to emergency
services, essential services, city traffic management, security, citywide CCTV
monitoring, disaster management, drainage, and other services,5 KM cycle track,
smart vending zone, parking, city beautification, Variable Message Display,
Reverse Vending Zone.
The Lt Governor stressed upon
the officials to speed up the pace of work on all ongoing projects around the
city so that the completed projects can be commissioned for public use at the
earliest. He asked officers to conduct regular on-site reviews to resolve all
bottlenecks, besides achieving a high level of Inter-Departmental synergy.
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