Senior IAS officials visited city to study its urban management system.
Indore’s model of development in areas like transportation, drinking water supply and solid waste disposal will help frame national policies, feels a team of senior IAS officials.
The officers who visited the the city to study its urban management system under “39th Advance Professional Programme in Public Administration”, said that Indore was selected as case study for their training programme as it is known for good practices in urban management.
“We have come here to learn about practices and problems of different development works as a part of our study under urban management system. This will help us to serve in a better way as after completing the course, most of us will apply for central deputation in different ministries to contribute in making of national policies,” said one of the group members Ashish Joshi. He is deputy director general in the department of telecom under Ministry of Communication & IT (New Delhi).
While talking about BRTS, the officials rated it as a better implemented project as compared to that of other cities including New Delhi.
“The problems persisting on BRTS corridor are initial and temporary. With time, people will prefer traveling on this route through different means of public transports. The corridor will have connectivity with the airport, railway station and bus stands to provide an easy and comfortable public transport system to the passengers” said Joshi.
The officials said that making flyovers on major points of traffic congestions and imposing heavy parking fees on spots adjacent to the corridor during peak hours will help ease transportation on the corridor and will also promote the public transport.
In a meeting of Indore Municipal Corporation and AICTSL officials presided over by Mayor Krishnamurari Moghe, officials received detailed information about sewage project, feeder road, sewage treatment plant, solid waste management, housing for financially backward people, drinking water, storm water line, development of gardens, ponds and public transport functioning.
Challenges while carrying out different development works in the city were also discussed in the meeting.
They also gave some suggestions including making changes in the process of inviting tenders, increasing funds given to the ward committees for carrying out development from Rs 50 thousand to Rs 2 lakh and also increasing limits to sanctions funds for development work.
The team included GR Awasthi, IFA group captain (New Delhi), Arvind Kumar, CVO NBCC, Ajmen Singh, CES Superintending Engineer Civil, Atul Tiwari, IAS joint secretary and Rakesh Gupta, faculty supervisor of Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA). They were headed by H M Mishra, the director of National Institute of Governance and Urban Management.
The officials are undergoing a 10-month training programme on urban management.
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