Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, on May 4, 2017, said that the government was working on Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping of all the properties in the state.
“We are working on GIS mapping of properties, to bring (information regarding) all properties online. A common portal of all municipal councils, will also be made available soon,” Fadnavis said, at a program in Mumbai, where awards for the best-performing municipal councils and panchayats were given.
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His government had allocated Rs 21,000 crores for the development of cities so far, he added. “146 projects worth Rs 8,000 crores were pending for eight years, but we decided to complete them in three years. We gave Rs 3,000 crores each for the first two years. All pending works will be completed next year,” Fadnavis said.
“We have made 200 cities open-defecation-free and are working very hard to make entire Maharashtra open-defecation-free by this year-end,” he said. He also spoke about a special one-year drive, to promote segregation of waste from May 2017 to May 2018.
