Uttarakhand: Time extended for completion of Smart City works, Congress said that Smart City is a joke
The exercise to make Dehradun a smart city started in the year 2017. Dehradun was to become a smart city by the year 2021, but even after 6 years today, Dehradun has not become a smart city. Now once again the time for completion of the work of the smart city has been extended. Now in such a situation, once again the politics has intensified regarding the smart city.
Smart city work is going on for six years
Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, has been included in the list of smart cities. Smart city work has been going on for more than 6 years. The work of Dehradun Smart City has often been in controversies. Dehradun Smart City work started in the year 2017 and the work was to be completed by 2021. But there are still many such works which are incomplete. Due to which once again the period of Dehradun Smart City Mission has been extended till March 2025.
How many works of Smart City have been completed and how many are incomplete?
The smart city should have been ready by now but this has not happened. Let us know how many works of Dehradun Smart City have been completed and how many are incomplete. Let us tell you that the work of Integrated Output Series Scheme and Green Building is still incomplete. While the work of Smart Toilets, Smart Schools, Integrated Command Control Center, Scratch Building, Modern Doon Library, Electric Bus Project, Smart Water SCADA, Smart Garbage Collection Vehicles, Parade Ground Beautification Smart Water Meter has been completed.
A joke has been made in the name of Smart City
Along with the opposition, many MLAs of the ruling party have also raised questions regarding the works of Smart City. Questions have been constantly being raised regarding Smart City. In such a situation, politics has once again intensified regarding this. While Congress is constantly accusing the government regarding Smart City, BJP is also retaliating against Congress.
Congress State Vice President Suryakant Dhasmana says that people will not forget for generations the joke that the BJP government has done in the name of Smart City. The water level of Parade Ground has been eliminated. Concrete work has been done on the raw land of the city. The East and West Canals have been made underground and all the water sources of the city have been destroyed. As soon as the pre-monsoon arrived, the city got flooded, the monsoon is yet to arrive. Along with this, he has said that last year thousands of people were affected by dengue due to waterlogging and this time too the situation seems to be the same.
Smart City project 80 to 90 percent work completed
BJP spokesperson Kamlesh Raman says that the Smart City project is about 80 to 90 percent complete. But some work like smart road, child friendly city Green Valley is still left. For which the central government has given time till March 25. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s government will soon complete the work of Smart City. For this, the Chief Minister himself is holding a meeting with the officials.
