NEW PROJECTS

After about 11 months of disruption in the developmental projects in Srinagar city, recently the government decided to restart work on the incomplete projects and also approved new projects for the smart city project of Srinagar. It was first the clampdown post abrogation of article 370, and was followed by another months long Covid-19 lockdown and it resulted in complete halt to all the developmental work here.

Now after the unlock first, the government has started working on the projects but the outside labor force is not available in Kashmir as they left the valley before August 5, last year on the instructions of the government.

Recently  Board of Directors approved several new projects based on the proposals presented by CEO SSCL and DPRs formulated which include establishment of Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) for public services delivery at HMT, Emergency Operations Centre including city wide CCTV surveillance system, Smart Power Metering, Smart Water metering, Smart Street Vendor Market Zone near flyover at Jahangir Chowk, MA Road redevelopment, several drainage projects, Real Time Water and Air Quality monitoring system and display, Noise Pollution monitoring system, Smart Street lighting, Bio-toilets at major nodes, installation and commissioning of Reverse vending machines; and electric buses procurement.

The board also approved several projects initiated by SSCL including beautification of RBJC flyover and road-redevelopment in the city through PWD.