Parliamentary standing committee on urban development (PSCUD) has suggested that the BRTS system plan for Pune as well as Pimpari Chinchwad which is still at the planning stage and must be immediately put on hold and further course of action should only be taken after detailed Consultation with the important stake-holders such as the commuters of the city.
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| Daily Prabhat 8 November 2014 |
This committee had visited Pune
on 7th November .It was part of its study tour to Pune, Mumbai, Puri
and Bhubaneshwar. Though committee was on three day study tour to Pune, it rapped
up its visit in one and half day. Even media was kept away from that tour. It
was also alleged that after rapping up study tour committee went on to Shirdi,
though it was not scheduled in their tour.Ther was also criticism on committee's stay in five star hotel.
There are several controversial things in this report.i.e. When
PSCUD
says “that the BRTS system plan for Pune as well as Pimpri Chinchwad
which is still at the planning stage must be immediately put on hold because
they received
numerous complaints from the average citizens where the BRTS system is proposed
to be introduced but did not receive any satisfactory answers from
the Government agencies to the problems envisaged by the commuters in
Pune. And administration feels it has been saddled with a fait-accompli by way
of the BRTS proposal and now does not know But what about Pimpri Chinchwad BRTS ?. Why it should be put on hold?how to disengage from it without
loss of face”. But world bank says the
Pimpri-Chinchwad BRT may serve as a model for replication across India. Who is right?
World Bank or PSCUD. It is fact that there is no BRTS in its true terms in
Pune.
PSCUD says there should be a town
planner in each city and CEO should be an I.A.S officer. Then only town can be
developed in a systematic manner. What is the logic?. Town planner one can
understand but why CEO should be an IAS officer. Is this the only tribe in
India that can save the country? In last 77 years they are the only people who
have served (?) it. But what is the outcome?.
About JNNURM projects PSCUD says “feed
back from the study tour of the Committee to Maharashtra and Orissa is that
all these projects will remain incomplete after thousands of crores having been
spent on these projects. It would be a monumental waste of public money”.
But committee doesn’t go beyond that , it doesn’t fix or say anything about responsibility
of such a mess.
Here is the
report presented to loksabha and Rajyasabha on 18/12/2014 by committee
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