UDA, other local bodies to get Rs 1652-Cr for infrastructural projects: CM

Gandhinagar, 23 September 2014

Gujarat Chief Minister Smt. Anandiben Patel will distribute cheques of Rs 1652-Cr to the various municipal corporastions and nagarpalikas for carrying out the infrastructural projects in the state.

The Chief Minister will distribute these queques at the function to be held for the state government’s programme ‘Gujarat-ni Shaan-Dhbakta Shero’ at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, tomorrow. Mr. Shankarbhai Chaudhary, the Minister of State for Urban Housing Development, will be the special guest of the function.

Of the total grant-assistance of Rs 1652-Cr., Rs 936-Cr would be given for infrastructural projects to five Municipal Corporations, 132 Nagar-palikas and seven Urban Development Authorities (UDAs). While Rs 2.51-Cr to three nagar-palikas for constructing the ‘Seva Sadan’, Rs 47.22-Cr to 18 Nagar-palikas for water supply and sewerage projects and under the ‘Nirmal Gujarat Abhiyaan’ Rs 60-Cr to five municipal corporations and 119 Nagar-palikas for constructing 10,632 toilets. The cheques of Rs 350-Cr would be given to seven municipal corporations, 25 nagar-palikas and six UDAs for constructing the houses for the economical weaker section.

It is essential to mention here that earlier the state government had distributed an assistance of Rs 1910-Cr for these developmental projects. Thus with tomorrow’s assistance of Rs 1652-cr, total help would be of Rs 3562-Cr.