The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials are once again blowing smokescreen over turning Patna into Paris by the year 2021 - a year pretty much pulled out of a bag realizing fully well that they would not be there to answer questions nor would there be a government that has not much to show off since coming into power nearly two and a half years ago.
Invoking magic words like `Greater Patna Plan', `Patna Metro Development' and other such dream concepts, officials said by 2021, the face of Patna would have undergone massive facelift that would include broad streets at Ashok Rajpath, Frazer Road, Bhattacharya Road, Kadam Kuan, Boring Canal Road, Station Road, Dak Bungalow Road and other prominent streets in Patna.
In next 13 years, Patna would boast of world class education, health care, fire stations, and much better law and order situation making it one of the best cities in the east to live in, officials said on Friday.
Interestingly, since coming into power, most development projects initiated by the former Urban Development Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey have either already failed, abandoned, or have ran into snags in the absence of sound planning or due to lack of basic understanding of urban development. Minor projects like building better underground drainage in Kankarbagh or removing trash from street corners are proving to be tasks too daunting for an amazingly inept government that so far has proven to be all talks and no substance.
Source: www.patnadaily.com April-28-2008
