Saurabh Bharadwaj, Delhi Urban Development Minister gave an approval to the installation of additional 70,000 street lights in the national capital

Projects worth over Rs 10,000 crore are expected to be operational within the 10 smart cities of UP within a few months. Racing to meet the June 2023 deadline to meet the objectives stipulated under the Smart City Mission goals, the state government reviewed the progress being made by the urban development department.

As part of the efforts to expedite the long pending proposal to construct a new block within the Osmania Genera Hospital (OGH) campus, the Telangana government is expected to incur expenditure of Rs 560 crore to restore the nearly century-old OGH heritage structure and for construction of a new health block.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation and laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects at Banas Dairy Sankul at Diyodar in Banaskantha district of north Gujarat. He dedicated to the nation a New Dairy Complex and Potato Processing Plant at Diyodar built at a cost of over Rs 600 crore.

Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Minister KT Rama Rao laid foundation for various development works which have been completed in the southern part of the city under the Hyderabad Parliament constituency.

The Asian Development Bank will provide a USD 2 million loan for designing climate resilient urban infrastructure, strengthening institutional capacity and improving municipal resource mobilisation in Nagaland. Government of India and ADB signed the USD 2 million Project Readiness Financing (PRF) loan, the Manila- headquartered lender said in a release. Nagaland’s towns and cities face the long-term challenges of climate change, lack of basic amenities, poor connectivity. The PRF loan will help design water supply, sanitation, solid waste management and urban roads in 16 district headquarter towns (DHTs) with climate resilient features and improved access to poor and vulnerable. Capacity building of state agencies will help augment own-resource mobilization by urban local bodies, improve their readiness for implementing the ensuing project and initiating sector and institutional reforms.

The Gujarat Government has given in-principle approval for works worth Rs. 30.52 crore for water supply schemes under Swarnim Jayanti Mukhyamantri Shaheri Vikas Yojana in two municipalities Savarkundla and Upleta municipality of the state. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel also gave approval to Dholka municipality of Ahmedabad district to undertake works worth Rs. 20.23 crore for underground sewerage project phase-4.1 under Swarnim Jayanti Mukhyamantri Shaheri Vikas Yojana. CM gave in-principle approval to undertake various works worth Rs. 50.75 crore in these three towns. Accordingly, the works to be undertaken in Savarkundla Municipality include 20-meter-high Elevated Surface Reservoir (ESR) with capacity of 15 lakh liters, 36 lakh liters of underground sump, distribution system, pump house, pumping machinery and filter plant. The water supply works to be undertaken by Upleta Municipality include intake well, renovation of existing intake well, 4 MLD capacity water treatment plant, underground sump, high tank and rising main and various distribution system works. All these works in Savarkundla and Upleta will be carried out keeping in view the water requirement of the estimated population for the year 2052.

Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel laid the foundation stone of of Vaghrech Tidal Regulator Dam Project at a cost of Rs 250 crore. An e-plaque of project was unveiled by the CM. Apart from this, a newly-constructed railway overbridge at a cost of Rs 55 crore from the grants of State Urban Development and Housing Department through the Roads and Buildings Department above railway gate 108-109 in Bilimora municipal area was virtually dedicated by CM. Addressing a gathering at Vaghrech, the CM said that ground water level in the state has risen due to a series of check dams, bore dams, Sujalam-Suflam and other multi-purpose projects, canal and pipeline network, Sauni scheme, tidal projects, water storage, irrigation and water storage dimensions.

In a bid to reduce traffic congestion in the city, the state government will take up the Phase-II of the Strategic Road Development Programme (SRDP) Phase-II at an estimated cost of Rs. 3,115 crore.