Expressing happiness about Centre's decision to pick up Amaravati as smart city, municipal administration minister Dr P Narayana has said that the state government is readying plans to make all the cities in the state as smart cities.
He said that they are readying a blue-print to develop all the cities in the state as smart cities with state, central and private funds. Speaking to reporters here on Friday, Narayana said that chief minister Chandrababu Naidu had directed them to ready the plans to transform all the cities into smart cities. "Centre is extending funds for development of Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Tirupati and Amaravati as smart cities under its quota. We have already spared funds to develop another six cities with state funds. Now, we are contemplating to develop all the cities as smart cities," said Narayana.
Minister said that Centre is giving Rs.100 crore grant to the smart cities and state is granting the equal matching fund. He said that they have lined up several projects to develop Visakhapatnam with Rs.200 crore and Tirupati with Rs.100 crore. "In addition to the funds granted by State and Centre, we will take up develop Amaravati with another Rs.500-Rs.1000 crore," he said. He explained that they would pool up funds under Private-Public Partnership (PPP).
Narayana said that the AP stood in number slot in the country thanks to the reforms introduced by the state government in urban administration. He said that they have introduced e-governance, double-entry accounting system, urban planning, building bylaws prompting AP to secure 96.96 points. He said that they have initiated reforms in all the 13 wings as proposed by the Centre. "We got 100 per cent marks in 10 wings and little less in three wings resulting in securing a total of 96.96. Otherwise, we would have got 100 out of 100 in all the wings," said Narayana. He said that Orissa stood in second slot with 92 points.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Samdani MN
Quelle/Source: The Times of India, 24.06.2017
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