Akhilesh’s latest largesse will now mean the districts will be flushed
with development activities over the next few years. Among key promises,
Noida and Greater Noida will be given two new affordable housing
projects, a state-of-the-art sewerage treatment plant, a government
inter college for girls, construction orders for the medical university
that was promised last year, a 200-bed district hospital with a trauma
centre.

To service the growing power needs of the districts,
Akhilesh has also decided to set up power sub-stations in several
sectors, build underpasses at some of the busiest intersections and to
construct a multi-level parking space in Sector 18 of Noida, which will
accommodate over 3,000 cars. The government will also construct a
destitute home in Noida, in addition to living facilities for young
girls between the age of 7 and 17.

Earlier, Noida and Greater
Noida had suffered as a result of a routine wrangle for power between
the warring BSP and SP governments. In 2004, former CM Mulayam Singh Yadav dissolved the Gautam Budh Nagar district – formed in June 1997 by Mayawati — and stalled several projects. After the Samajwadi Party came to power in March 2012, most of Mayawati’s real estate
and development projects were believed to be on the SP government’s
radar. Recognised as a hub of corruption, residents were fearful that
many real estate projects would be on the chopping block again. Though
one such land-grab scam, of illegal distribution and sale of farmhouses
in Noida, is still being investigated by the Lok Ayukta, Akhilesh has,
so far, left all other existing projects that could affect consumers,
untouched.

Distributing his development promises between Noida,
Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway Authorities, Akhilesh will
inaugurate a 35 mld sewage treatment plant (STP) at Sector 123 of Noida
that will make it the first Indian city with a capacity to treat all the
sewerage it produces. Built on the recommendations of a team of
scientists from IIT Roorkee, the STP will service 28 sectors of Noida
and will also, a government release said, meet the ISO 14001:2004
standards of environmental pollution control.

To meet the
growing real estate demands, the government has approved a residential
project for the Greater Noida Authority that will build 7,200
‘affordable’ flats in ground plus three format in Sector 10. Each flat
will be built over 29.76 square metres. Akhilesh will also lay the
foundation stone of 4,425 affordable homes in Sector 18 of Greater
Noida, each of which will be priced at Rs 7.75 lakh.

The
proposed underpasses on the intersections of sectors 32, 35, 39 and 51
will be four-laned and will be built parallel to the Metro line. The
government will also build a 7-metre clover leaf on the proposed
four-lane underpass on the Master Plan road number 3 in sectors 94, 95
for traffic travelling from Delhi to Sector 94 of Noida.

In
welcome improvements for the residents, the Noida Authority will
construct a multi-level car parking — fit to accommodate 3085 cars —
in Sector 18. According to the available blueprint, the parking space
will be monitored by close circuit television cameras (CCTVs) and will
have a battery-operated shuttle service to ferry car owners from the
parking space to nearby areas.

Akhilesh will also lay the
foundation stone for a 200-bed district hospital in Sector 39, where the
government says it will provide cheap, accessible and quality
healthcare to all. The hospital premises will have residential
facilities for doctors and other support staff and will be equipped with
a trauma unit, modern pathology lab, radiological units, intensive care
and a special facility of a 100-bed reservation for women.

For
the state’s business capital, there’s plenty on offer in the power
sector as well. Two power sub-stations of 400 kv capacity will be fitted
in Sectors 123 and 148 of Noida, respectively. In addition, a 33 kv
power sub-station will also be built by the Yamuna Expressway Authority
at Sector 17 A in Greater Noida.

Akhilesh will also lay the
foundation stone for a building that will house the Nari Niketan in
Sector 34, and several underpasses, at the intersections of Sector 32,
35, 39 and 51 and at the master plan road number 3 in Sectors 94 and 95.
Expected to cost of Rs 22 crore, Nari Niketan will be built on a 5,400
square metre plot and will rehabilitate and service abandoned children,
women,
orphans and destitute persons. The government has also cleared a
proposal for constructing a five-storey building that will provide
living quarters to 200 girls between the age of 7 and 17, apart from
facilities for counseling, classes for primary education, and short-term
courses in handicrafts and vocational training.

The chief
minister will also lay the foundation stone for an inter college for
girls at Hoshiyarpur village in Sector 51 of Noida. In the first phase,
the college will be built over two floors on 8,300 square meters of land
and will house 35 class rooms, special laboratories for physics,
mathematics and chemistry, a multipurpose hall and a library. To
strengthen the education system, the government will also, finally,
begin the construction of a medical university at Greater Noida, the
approval for which was given by the government last year.

To be
built on 56.5 acre of land made available by the Greater Noida
Authority, the university will accommodate 100 students and provide
courses like MBBS, MD, MS, DM and MH. The government proposes to start
the academic session of the university by August 2013.

Akhilesh
will also inaugurate, on Tuesday, the OPD facility of a 500-bed
Multi-specialty hospital attached to the medical university. The
hospital, the government said, will extend advanced and affordable
medical facilities to all residents of Greater Noida and the
neighbouring districts.

In other major schemes for Noida and
Greater Noida, the chief minister will lay the foundation stone for
administrative offices for the Greater Noida authority, the construction
of which will be completed in three years.