( Following letter was personally handed over by me to Shri Sushil Modi, Dy CM of Bihar in January 2007 itself, Nothing happened except a few acknowledgements. Anyone can still witness this "Dream Project of PMC", which was given shape during Nitish regime only.)
The dream of PMC : "PATNA can be the biggest Village of the Planet"
Dated January 21, 2007
Shri Nitish Kumarji,
Hon'ble Chief Minister of Bihar,Patna.
Sub: "Patna Super Village Plan" of Patna Municipal Corpn.
Sir,
So what if our Hon'ble Prez find tears in his eyes by looking at the plight of Bihar or Biharis. So what, if the hopes and efforts our NRI brethren to see a "Resurgent Bihar" are dashed but PMC will always be determined to put up the RoadBlocks only instead of removing a single one.
There is a old proverb which says-
"Old habits die hard"
This proverb fits exactly into the philosophy & style of Patna Municipal Corporation, to whom most of the Patnaites have given a lovely nickname "Patna Narak Nigam" also.
My Dear CM Sahib, in your leadership, we thought our Bihar will again be developing in accordance to the norms & standards of 21st century, which was earlier pushed back to 19 th century by the previous Govts. But all this will remain a dream for Bihar, because PMC seems to be very much determined to develop PATNA into the "Biggest Village of the Globe".
You need not to travel too far to witness the glimpse of "Patna Super Village Plan of PMC". Just at the Baily Road under the nose of Shri N.K.Singh, Hon'ble Dy. Chairman of State Planning Board i.e. his ancestral House, the PMC dared to inaugurate this "Maha Yojna" in the last month i.e. December 2006.
They are developing a "Super Sabzi Market" in the midst of a very important road, which acts as the lifeline to the lakhs of people living in the colonies like ShastriNagar, AG Colony, AIIMS, Patel Nagar etc. This road starts off Bailey Road in between JD Women's College & the Boundary wall of the Tribhuvan-Madhuri Niwas ( h/o Shri N.K.Singh, IAS), which has also been identified as an important 100 feet wide road in the "Draft Patna Master Plan 2021".
According to PMC, they are doing this sin in accordance with the order of Patna High Court but Patna HC court has not given any such order 'which says that remove encroachments from the sides of the road and allow encroachments in the midst of the Road' as happened in this case. Patna HC only asked PMC to remove encroachment from the Roads but in this case PMC has established an example of 'officially allowing encroachments on the important Roads'. PMC is doing all this to violate the Patna HC court Order not only in words, but to violate the court order in Spirit also.
You are kindly requested to look into the matter and ask PMC officials to refrain in indulging such kind criminal conspiracies & activities, which are probably aimed to tarnish the image of Bihar as well as Your Govt. It is up to you to take such officials for the task who have dared to make such kind of uncivilized act.
With Best Regards.
Atul Kumar Mehta "viduur"
Author of the book "Hindulogy & America"
Copy to: Dy Chief Minister of Bihar, Minister for Urban Development, Media & Others.
Copy also to: NRI Biharis/ Participants of "Global Meet for Resurgent Bihar" to witness a glimpse of the deeds & schemes of PMC before leaving Patna, so that they overcome their illusions if accumulated in last 3 days.
--- In biharbrains@ yahoogroups. com, Bihar Group <bihar.group@ ...> wrote:
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> Patna/UNI/November 15th, 2008: After years of dilly-dallying, Bihar capital would soon be declared as India's newest metropolitan city, the second in the country's eastern region after Kolkata.
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> Official sources informed on Saturday, that the State Cabinet, at its last meeting here, took a unanimous decision to this effect on Friday.
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> "Patna has recently qualified to be upgraded to a metro city as it had fulfilled the basic criteria of having a residential population of one million," sources said.
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> Quoting the latest official figures, they said at present more than 1.7 million people permanently resided in the capital city, while another 300,000 people came here everyday from outside for jobs and other purposes.
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> The sources elaborated that for proper planning and execution of new projects required by the new Metro city, a ten-member Metropolitan Planning Committee (MPC) would soon be set up under the chairmanship of the state Urban Development Minister, which in turn would decide for the extension of the new geographical limit of the city.
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> Besides the minister, renowned city planners, engineers and architects would be the members and advisors of the high-power committee.
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> After Kolkata, the capital of Bihar would be the second metropolitan city in the eastern India, sources said adding that the average growth in population of Patna during the past few years was hovering between eight and ten per cent per annum.
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> "It was much above than any other city in the region, including Bhubaneswar and Guwahati," sources informed.
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> The stupendous increase in the population of Patna and its neighbourhood since 2000 was primarily because of a steady socio- economic growth in the area, better scope of job opportunities as well as improved law and order in almost every locality, according to sources.
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> They added that the above factors had resulted into a steady flow of people to come and permanently reside in the city.
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> Referring to the MPC'S future task for upgrading the civic and other amenities of Patna to convert it into a much better place to live for its people, the sources said under a multi-pronged strategy, the city's civic amenities would be brought at par with those in other metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata under time bound programmes.
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> The committee would also formulate yearly, five yearly and longer term prospective schemes for all round beautification and other developments of the new Metro city, the sources said.
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> The high-power committee was likely to hold its first meeting soon to finalise the new and wider geographical area of the proposed second metropolitan city of the East, the sources further informed.
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