Bhubaneswar, Jan 30: Union Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha admired Odisha for emerging successful in the tough competition among top 20 smart cities across the country.
Sinha lauded the State’s achievement during a video conference with Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi here on Friday.
The Chief Secretary said that the State government has put in enabling legal, normative and reform measures for making Bhubaneswar a successful smart city and for achieving sustainable urbanization in the State.
He assured that the State government would provide all help and assistance for the programme and all the projects of Smart City will be implemented in mission mode.
Participating in the discussion, Municipal commissioner Kishan Kumar added that the State government has made full assessment of the requirements for sustainable urbanization. “New policies have been prepared.
Odisha Development Authorities Act has also been suitably updated. Innovative financing models for future urban development have been put in place. The processes and procedures for citizen interaction and ‘ease of doing business’ have been simplified”, he stated, adding citizen connect programme have been widened through web-portals. Kumar said programmes for basic services like drainage, sewerage, quality power supply, rapid urban transport, internet connectivity etc have been streamlined and integrated projects have been taken up.
