The Hindu 22.11.2010
Gehlot to monitor progress of infrastructure projects
Special Correspondent
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday announced that the State Government would prepare a calendar for each project for ensuring its timely completion and reducing its costs and assured the he would himself monitor the progress of infrastructure projects.
Laying the foundation stone for a sewerage project at Panchsheel Colony in Ajmer, Mr. Gehlot said the works undertaken in Jaipur, Ajmer and Pushkar under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission would get priority for completion, while the Urban Improvement Trusts (UIT) would get more powers as the implementing agencies.
The sewerage project will be completed by May 2012 at a cost of Rs.61.44 crore along with the establishment of three sewage treatment plants in the town, even as the State Government is considering granting powers for developing residential colonies to the urban local bodies. There is a proposal for transfer of 15 per cent of the annual income of UITs to the local bodies.
Mr. Gehlot affirmed that the State Government's initiative for extending the benefits of various schemes to the public through e-governance would lead to a “transparent, sensitive and accountable [governance] structure”. “In fact, e-governance is good governance in modern parlance,” he quipped.
According to an official release here, the Chief Minister also made a reference to the development of Ana Sagar and other lakes in Ajmer on the lines of lakes maintained in Udaipur. Union Minister of State for Information Technology Sachin Pilot was among those present on the occasion.
Later, Mr. Gehlot laid the foundation stone for a guest-house to be constructed at a cost of Rs.1.55 crore on the State Public Service Commission premises in Ajmer and said a committee would be appointed shortly for providing resources to the PSC on the Union Public Service Commission's pattern.
