R S Pura will be developed on lines of smart cities: Bhagat

MLA, R S Pura Dr Gagan Bhagat and others reviewing the functioning of Municipal Committee on Friday.
MLA, R S Pura Dr Gagan Bhagat and others reviewing the functioning of Municipal Committee on Friday.

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan1: Dr Gagan Bhagat M L A R.S Pura & Political Advisor to State B.J.P president and Director Urban Local Bodies, Jammu, Soujanya Sharma, along with S.D.M R.S Pura, Tehsildaar R.S Pura, S.D.P.O R.S Pura ,conducted an extensive tour of R.S Pura Town and reviewed the functioning of the Municipal Committee there.
They visited various commercial and public projects being developed under self finance Schemes. Stressing on timeline completion of the projects, Dr.Gagan Bhagat issued directions to the execution agencies/officers to follow prescribed specifications in the work. He instructed the Executive Officer to develop commercially viable projects and emphasized that the R.S Pura Municipality should make efforts to become self sustaining.
He directed E.O Youdhraj to identify land so that commercial projects are conceived and revenue is generated to make the Urban bodies earning Organizations to enable these to take up developmental works of the area. Besides this the Sanitation Scenario prevailing in the R.S Pura town was also reviewed and instructions were given to concerned Officers to start one week cleanliness drive from next week.
The MLA said he is committed to develop the R S Pura on the pattern of smart cities and urged the officers to start planning of developmental projects accordingly.
He also issued directions for carrying out desilting of the large draining channels, so that the problem of Water logging at R.S Pura be taken care of. On certain demands of the Safai Karmcharis he said that the genuine demands of employees would be given due consideration.
Instructions were issued to executive officers to use sufficient funds raised on the own resources on street lights. He said that the assistance in this regard shall also be provided by directorate, and Director is very much interested to revive the Municipal Committee of R.S Pura. He inspected the ongoing as well as proposed project sites.