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CS reviews pace & progress of different urban development works including SCM

KI News by KI News
August 13, 2024
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SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today held a meeting of the Housing & Urban Development Department (H&UDD) to take stock of the progress made on different development projects including Smart City Mission (SCM), e-Buses and waste management.

Those present include the Principal Secretary, Finance; Commissioner Secretary, H&UDD; Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir/Jammu; Commissioner, SMC/JMC; VC, LCMA; DG Budget; and other concerned officers.

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During this meeting, the Chief Secretary impressed upon the concerned to make concerted efforts to make expected progress on the ongoing Smart City projects in both cities. He asked them to enhance the monitoring on the ground and push the contractors to complete these projects on time.

Regarding the e-Bus services at both Srinagar and Jammu, the Chief Secretary urged the concerned to ensure that these buses ferry at least 350 passengers a day covering a minimum of 200 km. He advised them to switch to digital mode of fare collection for it is more secure and free from any chances of pilferage.

Dulloo also enjoined upon the concerned to make urban development a hallmark of our cities. He asked them to be coherent with the changing times thereby working towards developing assets especially that of sanitation and sewage treatment for cities that fulfil its requirements for the next several decades.

On this occasion, the Commissioner Secretary H&UDD, Mandeep Kaur, gave a detailed presentation on the status of all the ongoing and completed projects under SCM in both cities.

She also detailed the model and performance of the 100 e-Buses put in service in each of the two cities of the UT. The intercity/intracity routes and the passengers ferried on each of them. It was added that these buses are ferrying more than 21000 passengers daily in Jammu and about 6,53,697 passengers here in Srinagar during the month of July this year.

She gave out the current scenario of waste management at Srinagar and Jammu with the plans of the Department to augment these further under Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 (SBM) and City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS 2.0) program of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), GoI.

It was given out that the Department through Municipal bodies is going to initiate an integrated solid waste management to make the process scientific and sustainable. It was also revealed that the plan includes the steps like segregation of waste, its biomethanation, establishment of sanitary landfill sites, waste-to-energy plants, Leachate treatment with bioremediation or bio-mining of legacy waste on modern lines.

 

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