WELCOME To USAID MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, LUDHIANA

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WELCOMEToUSAID MUNICIPAL CORPORATION,
LUDHIANA
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City Profile

• Fastest growing city in India.
• Present population 25 lacs approx.
• Around 10000 vehicles added every 3 months.
• Highest per capita vehicles in the country.
• One of the most Industrial city in northern
  India.
• Very large migrant population 4 lacs approx.
• Area 169 sq kms.

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Population Growth
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INFRASTRUCTURE An Overview

• Water Supply 60
• Sewerage 50
• Storm water drainage 10
• Street Lighting 70
• Metalled roads 80
• Waste Disposal 70
• No basic amenity 15

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LUDHIANA COMMERCIAL INFRASTRUCTRURE

• Existing Condition
• A large number of unorganised commercial areas
  have come up
• Even organised commercial areas lack parking
  facilities, proper sanitation, footpaths, public
  toilets etc.
• Main commercial area near Chaura Bazar is choked
  due to traffic congestion
• What needs to be done
• Provision of public toilets, footpaths, proper
  advertisement control, ornamental landscaping to
  be initiated in existing commercial areas.
• Underground/multi-story parking complex to be
  built to decongest commercial area.
• Strategically located government lands and
  properties to be commercially exploitation.
• Develop bulk marketing area like vegetable
  fruit market, timber market, Iron market,
  transport Nagar, etc. outside the city

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Why Urban Infrastructures is so poor

• Existing Situation
• No comprehensive master plan and land use
  strategy
• Haphazard Growth
• Resource constraint
• What needs to be done
• A legally enforceable master plan for Ludhiana
  Municipal area is urgently needed
• Temporary freeze/strict implementation vis-a-vis
  land use
• Improve the financial health of Municipal
  Corporation.
• Raise resources from national/International
  agencies

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WATER SUPPLY

• Existing Condition
• 207 Tube wells - main source of water supply
• OHRS 45
• 60 pipeline i.e 840 kms.
• Water table falling by 30 cm/year
• No supply of safe water for 40 of the population
• Ground water not potable for areas abutting Budha
  Nalah Industrial areas.
• What needs to be done
• Realistic assessment of existing and future
  requirements of
• drinking water.
• Conserving surface water (rain water)
• Public campaign about importance of water
  conservation
• Mobilization of necessary resources from both
  government and other funding agencies.

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DRAINAGE /SEWERAGE

• Existing condition
• Only 10 city covered by storm water drainage
• 50 areas without sewerage system
• Treatment plant being constructed under Sutlej
  Action Plan costing 164 cr., does not cope up
  even with the present effluent discharge.
• Buddha Nalah which is a sullage carrier pollutes
  the ground water.

• What needs to be done
• A realistic assessment of the sewerage
  requirement - both
• present and future- new/old areas - expert
  agency.
• Necessary funding from various agencies needed.
• Lining of Budha Nalah Rs. 17 crores / 3.9 m
• Sewerage system 57 crores./ 13.1 m

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Water Harvesting

• WATER HARVESTING
• Low lying areas - little storm water drains
• Rain water recharging wells constructed 10 nos
• Roof water tapping - Building by laws
• Need - Technology - Water Recycling
• GW Recharging/Lessening Load on sullage sewer
• Injection wells 15 nos
• Need for change in bye laws so that each house
  should
• have its own injecting wells.
• Water harwesting wells - 6 nos

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Water Supply and Sewerage What needs to be done

• Preparation of master plan envisaging the growth
  rate of population with the designing of
  infrastructure for future needs.
• To provide latest know how technology for
  maintenance and up gradation of existing system.
• To provide latest technology for treatment of
  waste water (effluent discharge) as well as
  drinking water.
• To involve private agencies to provide services
  on BOT, BOOT, PSP and on self financing basis.
• To prepare projects that take care of costs and
  maintenance needs to get loan/finances from
  different agencies.
• Steps to minimise water lose and energy audit for
  water generation.

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Operation Budha nala

• OPERATION BUDHA NALA
• Annual floods - deaths
• Encroachments - no cleaning possible
• Being tried for 25 years
• Pressure groups - Encroachers, Politicians,
  Judiciary, Press - tackled
• More than 3000 structures demolished - all
  types
• 250 Acres - Rs. 350 Cr.( 80.4m) Land
  reclaimed
• No floods, Roads, Parking, Parks, Commercial
  Land
• Require lining, polluting ground water, deaths
  - Rs. 14 Crs or 3.2m only

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Solid Waste Management-I

• Existing Condition
• Approximately 850 mts. of garbage generated every
  day.
• Municipal Corporation unable to handle the entire
  volume of garbage 75 lifted
• No solid waste treatment plant at present.
• 240 garbage containers placed at various places.
• 9 pucca filth depots for collection of garbage.
• 2 dumping grounds for disposal of garbage.
• What needs to be done
• Proper/designated garbage collection places to be
  developed throughout the city.
• Upgradation of machinery (Refuse Compactors) with
  a view to reducing container sites.
• Formalizing the informal rag picking.
• Commercial exploitation of solid waste through
  appropriate technology to be initiated, Waste to
  compost / Waste to Energy.
• Need to evolve private sector in solid waste
  management.
• Scientific and cost effective disposal of
  Biomedical waste.
• Technical know-how and financial aid from
  International Agency.

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Solid Waste Management-II

• Neighborhood sanitation committee.
• House to house collection
• Small size fiber dustbins.
• Road cleaning machine / vacuum cleaner
• Fine for littering
• Cattle lifting vehicle. .
• Containerised tricycle.
• Night Squad.

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Neighborhood Sanitation Committee

• Regular sweepers covered only 40 of the city.
• Rs. 1200 pm per sweeper and Rs. 2500/- per year
  per sweeper for equipment.
• 65 saving.
• Public Participation.
• Better sanitation conditions.
• 144 N.S.C already formed with 2356 sweepers.

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ROADS TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

• Existing Condition
• Major Roads have developed commercial frontage as
  a result - continuous conflict between fast
  moving, slow moving and pedestrian traffic.
• Geometrics of the road and roads inter-sections
  in the older part of the city obsolete-generates
  sever traffic congestion.
• What needs to be done
• Widening of roads and making them dual carriage
  way with footpaths on either side.
• Removal of encroachments a continuous process
• Construction of new Bus Stands on different sides
  of the city
• Construction of a new Truck Stand and Transport
  Nagar
• Construction of by passes and flyovers.

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TRAFFIC TRANSPORTATION

• Existing condition
• Limited public transport system
• Unprecedented growth of two/four wheelers
• Excessive use of three wheelers without
  requisite registration documents.
• What needs to be done
• Augmentation of road network by improving weaker
  road links
• Providing missing links in the road network
• Strengthening of parking facility
• Providing eco-friendly public transport system -
  MRTS/LRTS
• Strengthening of traffic enforcement department
  of police

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LUDHIANA ENVIRONMENT

• Existing Condition
• Industrial City
• One of the most polluted city in India
• Air, Water and Noise Pollution
• What needs to be done
• A comprehensive plan to be developed for
  relocation of polluting units.
• Public-Industry awareness programmes.
• Mass plantation / Green belts / Roadsides
• Involving Public and private sector (e.g
  Greenline)

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Urban Horticulture

• 505 parks including one Rose Garden (42 acres)
• 560 workers including gardeners, night watchmen /
  rest keepers/drivers.
• Master plans for garden, roads, parks, colonies,
  green belts.
• - Neighborhood parks for public recreation.
• - Privatisation of roadside plantations /
  roundabouts
• - Public involvement through park management
  committees.
• - Buddha Nalah afforestation .
• - Mass plantations in green belts / roadsides
  for environment.
• Flower and garden shows to educate the public.
• 50000 trees
• 20000 tree guards involving nearly 4 crores.

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RECREATION PLANTATION

• Existing Condition
• Very few places of recreation
• Existing parks not properly maintained
• City lacks sufficient green belts.
• What needs to be done
• Identification of various belts/open spaces to be
  developed as green belt/recreation centers
  (Neighborhood parks)
• Involvement of existing industry and citizens in
  this effort.
• Commercial exploitation of select areas by
  converting them into amusement parks involving
  private sector participation.

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Park Management Committees

• Lack of staff for total horticultural development
• Rs. 1 /sq.mtr/ month average 2000/ park/month
• Govt. worker average 6000/month plus perks
  (Uniforms, washing allowances, oil soap, GPF,
  holidays, LTC)
• Complete public / councillor involvement.
• 60 saving for establishment.
• No expenditure for plants garden tools.
• No unionism
• Perfect provision of public facilities.
• 220 out of 505 parks already allotted to PMCs by
  MCL.

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Slums

• 182 slums identified.
• Population in slums 4 lacs approx.
• Migration , the main cause
• Neighborhood committees formed for community
  welfare activities.
• Works worth Rs. 1 crore ( 0.22m)for development
  of slums under progress under National slum
  development programme.
• Beside this, works councilor own financial quota
  are in progress.
• 30 public lavotaries provided (Sulabh)
• Vote banks councilors are interested.
• Model slum /Adarsh Basti HUDCO grant

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Privatisatons

• PRIVATISATIONS
• No recruitments, 5th Pay Commission
• Tubewell running, Rs. 3100 pm.
• Trying - Total W/S Sewerage Management
• Street Light
• Courier - bill distribution
• NSCs - Neighborhood Sanitation Committees
• Garbage Transportation, 30 - 70
• PMCs - Parks Management Committees
• Roads maintenance - 3/5 years

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Decentralisation

• DECENTRALISATION
• 4 Zones - implemented
• 80 Public now goes to zones
• HO - Policy decisions/planning

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Physical Survey

• PHYSICAL SURVEY
• Completed by PEC (Punjab Engg. College of
  Chandigarh)
• 20 new properties assessed
• Digitised Map
• GIS - W/S, Sewer system too
• UNIQUE PREMISES No.

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COMPUTERISATION

• All Octroi Posts Data Transfer through
  telephones, Linkage with Sales Tax
• Salary Automatic Increments, GPF Calculation,
  35 clerks rendered surplus, Linking with banks
• Automatic Posting, Interest Calculation,
• Death Birth Record Certificates
• House Tax Data Entry Bill Printing
• Accounting System USAID helping

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COMPUTERISATION

• MIS Revenue Collection, Complaints Recording
  and their Redressal, Job Monitoring
• Stores Accounting
• Purchase/Indent System
• GIS Digitised map of the city and Details up to
  house level

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Expert Studies / Master Plans

• Expert Studies/ Master Plans
• Traffic Problem - BHAU, RITES - LRTS
• Fire Brigade - 10 Stns, housing
• Horticulture - Roads, Garden, Parks, Colonies,
  Commercial areas, Greenline
• Lands Disposal - M/s C B Richard Ellis
• Decongestion - Chesterton Meghraj / Strategic
  Partners
• Require - VISION PAPER - LUDHIANA 2020

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Prestigious Projects Completed

• Seven storeyed parking complex
• Widening improvement of Chandigarh road.
• Improvement of Entry points
• Signage System all over city.
• Raised 17 crore ( 3.9m) bonds successfully.

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Proposed Prestigious Projects

• Construction of raised road from Chand cinema on
  old GT Road upto Jagraon Bridge - Rs.58 cr./
  13.3m
• Construction of ROB on Ludhiana Dhuri Railway
  Line and Ludhiana-Delhi Railway Line near
  Dhandari Kalan - Rs.30 cr. / 6.89m
• Construction of Roads along Budha Nalah - Rs.15
  cr. / 3.44m
• LRTS involving inner city to remove congestion -
  Rs. 1500 cr. / 344.8m
• Construction of Outer Ring Road 60kms- 500 cr.
  ( 114.9m) 4 bus terminals on radial roads.
• Diversion of Budha Nalah into river Sutlez near
  Machhiwara to reduce pressure on Budha Nalah.

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Income of Municipal Corp
Income of Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana Fig.
In Lacs 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 age
Budgeted Increased/
Proposed 9045.02 9244.01 12101.26 22937.00 89.54
ICRA Rating AA- (SO)
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Income of Municipal Corporation Ludhiana
ICRA Rating AA-(SO)
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Income of Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana has
increased substantially in the last two years.
Now, no much scope is left for further sharp
increase in the income.
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Expenditure
In Lacs
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Expenditure on development works
In Lacs
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PRESENT REQUIREMENT But, Ludhiana needs Rs. 1700
Cr. (390.8m) to provide basic amenities to its
citizens and to remove infrastructural
deficiencies. Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana,
deserves to get some of these projects funded
urgently
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But, more importantly, Municipal
Corporation,Ludhiana needs technical help for
capacity building and finding permanent solutions
for its problems from the experiences
expertise of USAID
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THANK YOU !