HDMC goes ahead with city plan
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
5 Oct, 2006 2248hrs IST
HUBLI: Without waiting for a formal proposal from the state government to the Centre for the inclusion of Hubli-Dharwad in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the HDMC has prepared a draft City Development Plan for the purpose.
It is more than a month since Congress president Sonia Gandhi, while addressing a public rally in Bangalore, had made an announcement on the inclusion of the twin-cities in the JNNURM mission, but the state government is still dilly-dallying over it.
This, despite a written assurance from primary and secondary education minister Basavaraj Horatti to former HDMC mayor Anil Kumar Patil that the proposal would be sent to the Centre in the third week of September. Patil had threatened to start a rasta roko agitation.
The HDMC had commissioned the report from a consortium of Administrative Staff College of India and Ernst & Young. In the draft report submitted to the corporation last month, it has proposed an investment of Rs 472.23 crore for the city’s infrastructure till the year 2012.
The investment plan envisages Rs 43.56 crore for water supply, Rs 124 crore for sewerage, Rs 20.69 crore for solid waste management, Rs 37.95 crore for storm water drains, Rs 98.50 crore for traffic and road improvement, and Rs 147.51 crore for slum upgradation.
The preparation of the report has been financed by the Washingtonbased Cities Alliance, whose city development strategy approach has been adopted as a model, and is mandatory for accessing funds made available by the Centre under the mission.
The main objective of the City Development Plan is to ensure planned growth of Hubli-Dharwad in the desired direction, promote economic growth and service delivery, and reduce urban poverty guided by a shared vision for development of the twin-cities.
Under the mission, the central government is likely to provide financial assistance of nearly Rs 500 crore to Hubli-Dharwad, spread over the coming five to ten years, for improving urban governance and ensuring sustained economic development.
The entire exercise for preparation of the plan involved active participation of key stakeholders like Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, Hubli-Dharwad Urban Development Authority, Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board, Karnataka Slum Clearance Board, and representatives of civil society, spread over four months.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
5 Oct, 2006 2248hrs IST
HUBLI: Without waiting for a formal proposal from the state government to the Centre for the inclusion of Hubli-Dharwad in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the HDMC has prepared a draft City Development Plan for the purpose.
It is more than a month since Congress president Sonia Gandhi, while addressing a public rally in Bangalore, had made an announcement on the inclusion of the twin-cities in the JNNURM mission, but the state government is still dilly-dallying over it.
This, despite a written assurance from primary and secondary education minister Basavaraj Horatti to former HDMC mayor Anil Kumar Patil that the proposal would be sent to the Centre in the third week of September. Patil had threatened to start a rasta roko agitation.
The HDMC had commissioned the report from a consortium of Administrative Staff College of India and Ernst & Young. In the draft report submitted to the corporation last month, it has proposed an investment of Rs 472.23 crore for the city’s infrastructure till the year 2012.
The investment plan envisages Rs 43.56 crore for water supply, Rs 124 crore for sewerage, Rs 20.69 crore for solid waste management, Rs 37.95 crore for storm water drains, Rs 98.50 crore for traffic and road improvement, and Rs 147.51 crore for slum upgradation.
The preparation of the report has been financed by the Washingtonbased Cities Alliance, whose city development strategy approach has been adopted as a model, and is mandatory for accessing funds made available by the Centre under the mission.
The main objective of the City Development Plan is to ensure planned growth of Hubli-Dharwad in the desired direction, promote economic growth and service delivery, and reduce urban poverty guided by a shared vision for development of the twin-cities.
Under the mission, the central government is likely to provide financial assistance of nearly Rs 500 crore to Hubli-Dharwad, spread over the coming five to ten years, for improving urban governance and ensuring sustained economic development.
The entire exercise for preparation of the plan involved active participation of key stakeholders like Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, Hubli-Dharwad Urban Development Authority, Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board, Karnataka Slum Clearance Board, and representatives of civil society, spread over four months.
