Minister directs
for fast pacing of project
SRINAGAR, MAY 23: Minister for
Housing and Urban Development, Satpal Sharma today directed the officers to
ensure that the work on the habitat centre is started so that it comes up as
one of the iconic landmarks of the Jammu city.
The
Minister was speaking a review meeting convened to discuss the status of
implementation of the Jammu habitat centre being constructed by the Jammu
Development Authority with an estimated cost of Rs 188 crore.
Financial
Commissioner housing and urban development KB Aggarwal, Vice Chairman
JDA, and other senior officers were present at the meeting.
The
Minister while directing the officers to come up with a comprehensive work plan
to start the work on the prestigious project said that we have to ensure that
the habitat centre comes up as one of the major attractions and iconic
landmarks of the Jammu city so that it provides the much-needed state of art
facilities, besides the recreational ones as well to the people of the Jammu
and would also be having the potential of attracting tourists to it.
Sat
Sharma said that the executing agency should also come up with the
architectural patterns which synchronize well with the landscape and the
surrounding s of the proposed habitat centre, besides also with coming up Tawi
river beautification project. He said that due care should also be taken to
make it a resistant to the natural calamities like floods and other
catastrophes and in this regard the geological survey, soil testing, and other
scientific surveys should be done.
The meeting
was told that the habitat centre would be having three major components and
would act as a connecting factor of left and right banks of Tawi river. It
would be having government, private offices, rental offices, community facility
centres, clubs, indoor games, besides provision would also be made for cultural
and recreational activities. It would also be having a convention centre with
an intake capacity of 1200 persons.
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