The Times of India               19.07.2013

RMC to start RAY project in Gujarat

RAJKOT: Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) commissioner Ajay Bhadoo has claimed that RMC would become the first civic body in Gujarat to start Rajiv Awas Yojna (RAY).

After holding a meeting with officials from six municipal corporations of Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Asansol, Lucknow and Kanpur, Ajay Bhadoo told reporters on Thursday that "tendering process of the RAY project would start from next month and with that RMC would become the first civic body in Gujarat to start the project."

Nearly 272 houses would be built under the RAY project for urban poor people, he said.

The commissioner also claimed that RMC has utilised about 90 per cent of funds given under JNNURM project by completing five projects out of six proposed under it.

Six officials of municipal corporations from other states came here to meet the RMC officials and share the development projects completed or being undertaken by their respective civic bodies.