New projects for twin cities - laughing stock
Newindpress.com
Saturday October 21 2006 13:16 IST
HUBLI: The announcement to set up the Textile Park in the twin cities of Hubli-Dharwad by the State Government, has become a laughing stock with the government’s failure to keep its word in implementing projects announced for the twin cities.
People have lost faith in the government announcing new projects for the twin cities. Not only the incumbent government, but all previous governments had announced many new projects for Hubli and Dharwad, however, they were on paper only.
There is a long list of such new projects and schemes which were announced by all the governments and nothing was done to implement them with commitment, in a decade.
The government had announced its plan to construct a big truck terminus near Gabbur cross on 80 acres of land, to ease traffic congestion in the twin cities, about six years ago. Even the district administration had announced a time bound programe to complete this terminus last year, but nothing has moved on this, with no works initiated on constructing the terminus.
Both, the Hubli-Dharwad Urban Development Authority and the district administration, pass the buck to each other, for the delay in taking up the works.
Another project, was that of setting up the ‘Regional Science Centre’ on KUD campus, which was ignored by the government after the formal announcement.
Though, the Central government was said to have sanctioned its share of Rs 3.25 crore, there is still no sign of initiating works on this project.
People here were elated when the government announced constructing a ring road that was approved in 2001 when Dharam Singh was the PWD minister. But, this project did not get salvation even when Dharam Singh became the CM.
The government had also promised to convert the road between Hubli-Dharwad into four-lane, when S M Krishna was the CM but again failed to do so, resulting in public agitations.
The list of projects being announced for the twin cities like establishing cold storages, flyovers, solid management unit, is endless.
Sadly, most projects have been gathering dust in various government departments.
At least now, the government should stop announcing new projects, till it completes all pending projects with commitment, to win the confidence and faith of people of the twin cities, is what the public strongly opine.
Newindpress.com
Saturday October 21 2006 13:16 IST
HUBLI: The announcement to set up the Textile Park in the twin cities of Hubli-Dharwad by the State Government, has become a laughing stock with the government’s failure to keep its word in implementing projects announced for the twin cities.
People have lost faith in the government announcing new projects for the twin cities. Not only the incumbent government, but all previous governments had announced many new projects for Hubli and Dharwad, however, they were on paper only.
There is a long list of such new projects and schemes which were announced by all the governments and nothing was done to implement them with commitment, in a decade.
The government had announced its plan to construct a big truck terminus near Gabbur cross on 80 acres of land, to ease traffic congestion in the twin cities, about six years ago. Even the district administration had announced a time bound programe to complete this terminus last year, but nothing has moved on this, with no works initiated on constructing the terminus.
Both, the Hubli-Dharwad Urban Development Authority and the district administration, pass the buck to each other, for the delay in taking up the works.
Another project, was that of setting up the ‘Regional Science Centre’ on KUD campus, which was ignored by the government after the formal announcement.
Though, the Central government was said to have sanctioned its share of Rs 3.25 crore, there is still no sign of initiating works on this project.
People here were elated when the government announced constructing a ring road that was approved in 2001 when Dharam Singh was the PWD minister. But, this project did not get salvation even when Dharam Singh became the CM.
The government had also promised to convert the road between Hubli-Dharwad into four-lane, when S M Krishna was the CM but again failed to do so, resulting in public agitations.
The list of projects being announced for the twin cities like establishing cold storages, flyovers, solid management unit, is endless.
Sadly, most projects have been gathering dust in various government departments.
At least now, the government should stop announcing new projects, till it completes all pending projects with commitment, to win the confidence and faith of people of the twin cities, is what the public strongly opine.
