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Renovate Purnia’s grain market: CM Nitish Kumar

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asked the officials of agriculture and building construction departments to ensure immediate renovation of Purnia’s famous Gulab Bagh Mandi, which is the state’s biggest grain market.
Renovate Purnia’s grain market: CM Nitish Kumar
CM Nitish Kumar
PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asked the officials of agriculture and building construction departments to ensure immediate renovation of Purnia’s famous Gulab Bagh Mandi, which is the state’s biggest grain market.
Nitish was holding a joint review meeting with the officials and elected peoples’ representatives of Purnia, Katihar, Araria and Kishanganj at Purnia collectorate as part of his ‘Jal-Jivan-Hariyali’ Yatra.
He also asked the officials to conduct a fresh survey of public wells in Araria district before taking up their renovation work.
“As soon as I drew attention of the CM towards the dilapidated condition of roads, drains and buildings in the famous Gulab Bagh Mandi, the CM turned towards the government officials and asked the reasons behind not taking up the renovation work,” BJP’s Purnia MLA Vijay Kumar Khemka told TOI over phone on Tuesday.
“The CM asked a senior official of the building construction department in Patna through videoconferencing as to why the renovation work of Gulab Bagh Mandi has so far not been taken up despite a detailed project report (DPR) prepared by the agriculture department,” Khemka said.
Earlier, Khemka, while speaking in the review meeting, informed the CM that the agriculture department had approved a DPR of Rs15 crore for renovation of the famous mandi. The BCD has to execute the renovation work. But the matter is pending due to lack of coordination between the two departments.
Spread over an area of 68 acres, Gulab Bagh Mandi is facing a lot of problems due to its dilapidated roads, drains and ruined building, Khemka said, adding he had also raised this issue in the assembly in 2016 and at a previous review meeting of the CM in 2018. Reviewing the developmental works in Katihar, the CM asked the officials to take necessary steps to promote organic farming in different blocks of the district. “Katihar should be included in the list of 12 those districts where government has planned to promote organic farming,” the CM said at the meeting. “I urged the CM to upgrade Korha block headquarters as a subdivision and also open a degree college there,” Congress MLA Punam Paswan told TOI over phone.
Earlier in the day, Nitish, accompanied by several ministers and MLAs, visited Routara village under Korha block in Katihar district and Rupaspur Khagha panchayat in Purnia district and inspected several schemes being executed under the Jal-Jivan-Hariyali Abhiyan.
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