The Times of India       Patna       08.09.2016  

Spl purpose vehicle for smart city project

Bhagalpur: The speed of work on ‘Smart City Project’ at Bhagalpur is
likely to be accelerated with the formation of special purpose vehicle
(SPV) and approval of Rs 465.71 crore by the state government for
undertaking development work. Bhagalpur divisional commissioner has been
made the chairperson of the SPV to oversee the project works.

Altogether Rs 1,309 crore will be spent on the project.

Bhagalpur divisional commissioner Ajay Kumar Chowdhary said a meeting of the SVP would be called soon.

“The Smart City Project at Bhagalpur will work with speed and extreme
diligence,” he told TOI. Bhagalpur municipal commissioner Avanish Kumar Singh said the work under the smart city project would become visible throughout the district after November.

Out of Rs 1,309 crore, nearly Rs 1,106 crore will be used for
‘area-based development’ in Bhagalpur and the remaining Rs 203 crore is
to be utilized for ‘pan-city project’ development works that envisage
application of selected smart solutions to the existing citywide
infrastructure.

Application of smart solutions involves the use of technology,
information and data to improve the infrastructure and services that aim
at having positive effects on the productivity and quality of citizens’
lives, district administration sources said.

Under the ‘area-based development’ projects, Rs 18 crore will be spent
on e-governance (electronic governance with the application of
information and communication technology for delivering government
services, exchange of information communication transactions etc and
mobile-governance) aims at providing government services to the people
through mobile phones and tablets to deliver services like health,
education, banking, other commercial services anytime, anywhere, besides
Rs 54.60 on developing information technology infrastructure, the
sources said.