Bihar CM Nitish Kumar chairs meeting on urban development and housing

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting where he shared his vision for urban development and housing in state with special focus on shelter for vulnerable sections of society, better drain system and improved waste disposal mechanisms.

meeting, held at Chief Ministers official residence 1, Anney Marg, was attended, among ors, by his deputy Tar Kishor Pras who holds urban development and housing portfolios and Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar.

chief minister, who won a fresh term in office last month, briefed attendees of proposed works, in urban development and housing, to be undertaken as part of "Saat Nishchay part-2" his blueprint for next five years.

se included construction of multi-storeyed housing complexes for homeless and shelter homes for elderly with care-givers.

Kumar also laid emphasis on "storm water drain system", which would prevent water-logging in event of a city or town being lashed by a spell of heavy rainfall. tably, several parts of state capital were left inundated for days toger in October last year following torrential rainfall.

chief minister also touched upon need for better manment of liquid and solid waste and recycling of garb and called for a study of places where se have been conducted with considerable success and replication of same in Bihar. He also stressed on need for better facilities at old-style cremation ghats and modern electric crematoriums.

He suggested that ponds be dug in vicinity of ghats where last rites are performed so that visitors face short of water while purity of river concerned is also maintained. 

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