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Administrative reforms of the Urban Development Department

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The State Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department has undertaken several administrative reforms over the last seven years of the Trinamool Congress Government to make the municipal authorities more effective, responsive and vibrant.

The primary reforms are as follows:

Ease of Doing Business: An online system for payment of property tax on land and buildings in municipal cities has been launched on a pilot basis in ten municipalities. It will gradually be extended to other urban local bodies.

Amendment of West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993: An amendment has been made to empower executive officers and finance officers of municipalities in order to strengthen municipal administration.

Parastatals have been restructured, like merging the State Urban Development Agency and Change Management Unit to support the urban local bodies in a coordinated manner and reorganising Kolkata Municipal Development Authority (KMDA) by merging Kolkata Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority (KMWSA) and Kolkata Improvement Trust (KIT).

Ensuring use of proper plastic: Legislation has been made for banning the use of and disposal of plastic of improper thickness within municipal areas.

Safety of residents of old buildings: Through the introduction of the section 412A in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, the KMC can now enforce owners of dilapidated buildings to reconstruct the buildings for the safety of the residents.

Environment-friendly building rules: An amendment has been made to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Building Rules, 2009, by incorporating additional floor area ratio (FAR) in respect of green and other categories of buildings.

A similar amendment has been made to the West Bengal Municipal Building Rules, 2007 for the other municipal bodies of the State. In both cases, an additional FAR of 10 per cent for green buildings and 15 per cent for mass housing projects, hospitals, IT office buildings, mega commercial projects, etc. have been granted.

Unit area-based assessment of property tax: Amendments have been made in the KMC Act and the West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993 to bring about unit area-based assessment of property tax in the areas under Kolkata Municipal Corporation and in other municipal areas of the State, respectively.

Urban development – A priority for Trinamool led Bangla Government

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The State Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department has done a commendable job under the Trinamool Congress-run administration. Over the last seven years, it has set up eight development authorities and carried out a lot of work on township beautification.

The primary achievements are as follows:

New development authorities: For the upgrading of existing infrastructure and creation of new tourist attractions in planned manner, eight development authorities have been constituted. They are:

  • Gangasagar Bakkhali Development Authority (in 2013),
  • Furfurah Sharif Development Authority (in 2015),
  • Tarapith Rampurhat Development Authority (in 2015),
  • Bakreswar Development Authority (in 2016),
  • Patharchapuri Development Authority (in 2016),
  • Mukutmanipur Development Authority (in 2017),
  • Changrabandha Development Authority (2017) and
  • Tarakeswar Development Authority (2017).

Area extension work has been done for Gangasagar Bakkhali Development Authority, Haldia Development Authority, Tarapith Rampurhat Development Authority and New Town Kolkata Development Authority.

Green City Mission: It was launched in 2016 for all cities of the State to make them future-proof, talent-friendly and investment-oriented by adopting sustainable, environment-friendly, liveable, energy-positive (adoption of solar energy) and information technology-friendly programmes. A total of 2,596 projects with a total project cost of Rs 1,290 crore have been launched.

Gitabitan: This new township dedicated to art, culture and design is being developed in Bolpur in Birbhum district under the Sriniketan Santiniketan Development Authority.

Floating market at Patuli: For rehabilitating shopkeepers who had to move away because of the widening of the EM Bypass, a unique floating market was created at a waterbody in Patuli near Garia, Kolkata. It has become immensely popular, both among locals and visitors.

Tele Academy and Correctional Home: A Tele Academy (academy for imparting training on various aspects of the television industry) and a state-of-the-art correctional home are being constructed in Baruipur.

Eco Tourism Park: Also known as Prakriti Tirtha, this beautiful park was set up on 480 acres of land around a 112-acre waterbody, alongside Biswa Banga Sarani in New Town. It has now become one of the biggest tourist attractions of Bangla.

Other constructions in Newtown: Other important constructions in New Town, one of the green cities and now considered a model city in the country, are Rabindra Tirtha, Nazrul Tirtha, Mother’s Wax Museum, Kolkata International (Biswa Bangla) Convention Centre and the Financial Hub.

Bicycles: A dock-less, GPS-enabled bicycle sharing service has been started in New Town.

Developments in Digha: A huge illuminated Welcome Gate was constructed in Digha to welcome visitors. The gate is beautifully designed and is lit up beautifully too, and it has become a popular spot for photography. A convention centre is under construction as well as a Hawkers’ Rehabilitation Centre, beachfront beauti­fication in front of Saikatabas and other places, a central bus stand, Digha Mohana Road, bituminous road to Sankarpur and Tajpur, and from Digha Gate to Mandarmoni, and Biswa Bangla Uddyan.

Developments in Mukutmanipur: The area under Mukutmanipur Development Authority has been declared a tobacco-free and plastic-free zone. The authority has adopted the motto, ‘Green and clean Mukutmanipur’. Open consumption of both tobacco and alcohol has been banned here, along with a ban on use of plastic.

Developments in Tarakeswar: Three electrical high masts have been put up by Tarakeswar Panchayat Samity. The Tarakeswar Municipality has put up 13 electrical high masts, trident lamp posts with LED Lamps and 300 nine-metre electrical poles with LED lights.

Hospitals: Beautification and frontage development of 23 district hospitals have been completed and work has been initiated for another 13 district, sub-divisional and State General Hospitals.

Parks: Development of more than 406 parks has been completed and that of another 391 are in the works as part of a green space development programme.

Crematorium: In the Medinipur-Kharagpur planning area, an electric crematorium has been constructed to prevent pollution generated by burning of wood in funeral pyres.

Bangla Govt committed to the development of large-scale infrastructure

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The State Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department has done a lot of work on town planning, including in the areas of housing, sanitation and waste disposal, and water supply.

The primary achievements are as follows:

Flyovers/Bridges/Roads:

  • Construction of “Maa Flyover”, a 7.4 km of the elevated corridor erected to ensure an uninterrupted traffc movement from the heart of the city to ‘Biswa Banga Sarani’
  • Construction of Garden Reach Flyover, Chandannagar Flyover
  • Four Lane Flyover at Kamalgazi Intersection on EM Bypass connector at the starting point of Adi Ganga in Kolkata
  • Construction of Elevated Corridor from Kestopur to Jora Mandir on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue
  • Dakshineswar Skywalk and Jinjirabazar – Batanagar Flyover are going to be inaugurated soon
  • Construction of emergent Road from Chemaguri New Bus Terminal to Gangasagar Mela
  • Emergency Jetty on Battala River for facilitating Pilgrims and local people of Sagar to avail the water route of Namkhana-Benuban
  • Chemaguri within Gangasagar Bakkhali Planning Area, Sulabh complex–cum- night shelter at Bakkhali Tourist Spot, connecting road from Sridam More to Banbibi Mandir via Ganagsagar Mandir at Gangasagar
  • Construction of concrete road from Mandir Road to Burning Ghat at Bakreswar
  • Fourth Mahananda Bridge & approach road is constructed at Siliguri to help in diversifying the tra‑c channel, reducing the distance and the travel time during peak hours
  • Repairing and Strengthening of roads, beautification and other works of the area adjacent to Kangsabati Dam like fountain at triangular park, mini high mast arrangements,15 no of stalls and repairing and strengthening of road from Mukutmanipur to Baraghutu Panchapally Tourist Complex
  • For better traffic management, a Ring Road was constructed around NDITA Area and also a Link Road with New Town is near completion

Housing: Since 2011, 1,22,405 houses have been constructed for those belonging to the economically weaker section (EWS) category; another 53,504 are under construction.

Skill development: Sixty-one city livelihood centres (CLC) have been established in various urban local bodies for providing information on skill and livelihood development programmes to poor and unemployed youth in the urban areas and also to develop linkage between the citizen and citizen-centric service providers like electricians, carpenters, plumbers, etc.

Samobyathi: Under the Samobyathi Scheme of the State Government, from December 2016 to March 2018, 29,165 families in 125 urban local bodies have received various benefits.

Sanitation and waste disposal policy: The ‘Policy and Strategy on Solid Waste Management and Plastics Waste Management’ for the urban areas of the State has been published.

Cleanliness drives: Special cleanliness drives were taken up in 2016 and 2017 for 7 days and 15 days, respectively, in all the urban local bodies of Bangla.

Waste segregation at source: For improvement of waste segregation at source, a 100 per cent door-to-door collection and transportation system has been adopted in all the urban local bodies through the providing of household bins, litter bins, community bins, tricycle vans, compactors, dumpers, tippers, and other vehicles and accessories.

Solid waste management:

  • A trans-municipal solid waste disposal project is in operation across six municipalities in Hooghly district.
  • Ten integrated municipal solid waste management projects for generating compost from waste and energy from waste, under Mission Nirmal Bangla, are operational in 14 urban local bodies – Dum Dum, North Dum Dum, South Dum Dum, Baranagar, Bhatpara, Naihati, Ashoknagar-Kalyangarh, Habra, Krishnanagar, Santipur, Nabadwip, Jalpaiguri, Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Asansol Municipal Corporation.
  • Another 13 solid waste management projects have been initiated in Durgapur Municipal Corporation, Bankura, Purulia, Coochbehar, Bardhaman, Arambagh, Raghunathpur, Kharagpur, Panihati, Kanchrapara, Baruipur, Garulia and Asansol Municipal Corporation

Major water supply schemes:

  • Daily twenty-four hour water supply schemes have been set up for the municipalities in Panihati, Bhadreswar, Budge Budge and Uluberia.
  • Trans-municipal water supply projects have been developed for the municipal towns of
  • Madhyamgram, New Barrackpore, Barasat, Titagarh and Khardah.

To ensure water supply in drought-prone areas during the dry season, the department has provided 260 two-wheeled stainless steel water tank trailers of 2000 litre capacity and 50 tractors to 24 urban local bodies in dry zones