VARANASI: Except the piped water supply project for the rural areas of the district, all other 17 projects for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation on July 15 will be completed before the 2022 state assembly polls.
“As per the list prepared by the district administration for the foundation laying of new projects, a total of 18 projects comprising 206 of Rs 838.91 crores will be gifted to Kashi by the PM,” said district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma, adding, “Only the Rs 428.54 crores project of piped water supply under Jal Jivan Mission, which will cover 143 rural belts of Shivpur, Ajgara, Pindra, Sevapuri and Rohania assembly areas, will take time of one and half year to be completed.”
“Other major project is of Rs 111.26 crores for constructing 47 rural link roads of 153 km. These road construction projects have to take place in Shivpur, Ajgara, Pindra, Sevapuri, Rohania and Cantonment assembly areas and will be started immediately after the end of monsoon and completed in October or November,” he added.
Cantonment assembly area has both urban and rural belts in its limit while all other these five assembly areas cover mainly the rural belts of the district, which has a total of eight assembly constituencies and all of them had been won by the BJP alliance in the 2017 election.
Apart from these water supply and road construction work, the rural areas will also witness arrivals of Central Institute for Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET) with a budget of Rs 40.1 crores in Rohania, mango and vegetable integrated pack house in Karkhiyao industrial area for agriculture product exports (Rs 15.78 crores) and an ITI at Mahgaon (Rs 14.16 crores) in Pindra.
Other projects including a ground+ 12-floor transit hostel for police at Police Lines (Rs 24.96 crores), shooting range (Rs 5.04 crores), urban place making under Lehartara-Chowkaghat flyover, water supply and sewage works under Ganga Action plan will come in urban areas of City South, Cantt and City North assembly areas.
The DM said that all these projects will be completed by year-end as basic work even of CIPET at Karsada area in Rohania assembly area has been completed. Apart from the new projects for which the PM will lay foundation in his visit, other on-going projects of around Rs 8000 crores including highways and first package of ring-road phase-II will also be completed by January 2022, said the officials.
