The State’s Urban Development and Housing Minister Madan Kaushik has directed the officials of the Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) to come up with a digital master-plan for Dehradun and Mussoorie. While chairing a meet to review works of the MDDA, Kaushik said that after Dehradun, a master plan for Mussoorie would be implemented.
Both the master plans will be digitalised simultaneously. Information about land-use will be taken by overlapping the digital map on the revenue map. GIS, satellite survey and GIS portal will be used for this purpose. Kaushik directed officials to complete the digital master plan by February 2020. The minister also reviewed the ISBT project, Amwala Tarla project and Transport Nagar project being executed by MDDA under Housing For All scheme. Kaushik directed that the beneficiaries be handed over possession soon. MDDA vice chairman Ashish Srivastav, secretaries GC Gunwant, SL Semwal and others were present in the meeting. Later, while reviewing the Urban Development departmental work, Kaushik told officials to expedite appointments to vacant posts. He said that sanitation and solid waste management should be facilitated in new areas brought under the purview of urban local bodies. Urban development secretary Shailesh Bagauli, director Vinod Kumar Suman and other officials were present in the meeting.
