Patna,(BiharTimes): To ease functioning and provide better civic amenities to the residents of Patna the Empowered Standing Committee (ESC) of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday decided to divide the New Capital Circle (NCC) into two parts.
Named Patliputra Circle, it would comprise five gram panchayats recently added in the PMC, including Digha, Kurji (Patliputra Colony falls in it) and Mainpura.
Besides, the Patliputra Circle will have 13 wards of the existing New Capital Circle. The remaining 16 wards are left with New Capital Circle.
Apart from the formation of the new circle, the PMC also decided to procure around 1,500 sanitation equipment, under the much-delayed Patna solid waste management project.
With this the PMC would now have five circles––NCC, Patliputra Circle, Bankipore, Kankarbagh and Patna City.
According to Patna Mayor Afzal Imam, Bailey Road (Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg) would be the dividing line and the areas south of it would remain under the NCC. The area north of Bailey Road would be called Patliputra Circle with its office on the Water Board plot near the water tank in Ward 22.
Ward number 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 would come under Patliputra Circle.
Ward number 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 28 and 37 would remain under NCC. The decision would be sent to the urban development and housing department (UDHD) for its final approval.
The UDHD has allotted Rs 38 crore to the Corporation to fulfil three of the seven resolves of chief minister Nitish Kumar. It was also decided that all the councillors would organize camps in their respective wards to assess the condition of approach roads and drainage system after discussing with the people.
PMC commissioner Abhishek Singh said the ESC also decided to purchase two self-propelled heavy duty vacuum sweepers, one truck mounted road sweeping machine, one disilter, 800 secondary storage containers of 1.1 cubic metre capacity, 50 secondary storage containers of 2.5 cubic metre capacity, 200 decorated dustbins and six twin bin dumper placers for solid waste management. Altogether Rs13 crore would be used from Solid Waste Management Fund to purchase the equipment.
