CM to launch ‘Aapka Shahar Aapki Baat’ campaign on Friday

Patna: CM Nitish Kumar is scheduled to formally launch on Friday the govt's ‘Aapka Shahar Aapki Baat' campaign for the newly added areas and wards in 90 of the 261 urban local bodies across the state. While the campaign was to be launched on Tuesday, its date was postponed to Friday due to the death of Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Christians, on Monday.
During the campaign, the priorities and needs of people in the newly included wards of the 90 urban local bodies will be enlisted, and schemes be framed accordingly for their implementation on a priority basis, urban development and housing department (UDHD) secretary Abhay Kumar Singh said at a review meeting held at the official residence of the CM.
The CM went through the campaign literature, saw a short film and inspected a model ‘rath (decorated motor van)', which will cover the newly included wards of the 90 urban local bodies.
Singh said that the number of urban local bodies in the state had increased from 120 in 2006 to 261 in 2025, while population in such areas also increased to 1.57 crore or 15.23% of the total population, as per the 2011 Census. Moreover, 1,609 newly created wards had been included in the 90 urban local bodies.
Overall, 2,491 programmes will be conducted to ascertain and enlist people's priorities and the need to do follow-up action.
Singh said that the district administrations and urban local bodies concerned will hold dialogue with the people.
"The exercise is being conducted as per the vision of the CM, who has envisioned to give quality urban life and matching infrastructure based on inclusive development and growth of urban bodies," Singh said.
Among those present at the review were deputy CM Samrat Choudhary, ministers Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Jiwesh Kumar, as well as CM's principal secretaries Deepak Kumar and S Siddharth, development commissioner Pratyaya Amrit, CM's secretary Kumar Ravi, besides other senior officials of the UDHD.
Patna: CM Nitish Kumar is scheduled to formally launch on Friday the govt's ‘Aapka Shahar Aapki Baat' campaign for the newly added areas and wards in 90 of the 261 urban local bodies across the state. While the campaign was to be launched on Tuesday, its date was postponed to Friday due to the death of Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Christians, on Monday.
During the campaign, the priorities and needs of people in the newly included wards of the 90 urban local bodies will be enlisted, and schemes be framed accordingly for their implementation on a priority basis, urban development and housing department (UDHD) secretary Abhay Kumar Singh said at a review meeting held at the official residence of the CM.
The CM went through the campaign literature, saw a short film and inspected a model ‘rath (decorated motor van)', which will cover the newly included wards of the 90 urban local bodies.
Singh said that the number of urban local bodies in the state had increased from 120 in 2006 to 261 in 2025, while population in such areas also increased to 1.57 crore or 15.23% of the total population, as per the 2011 Census. Moreover, 1,609 newly created wards had been included in the 90 urban local bodies.
Overall, 2,491 programmes will be conducted to ascertain and enlist people's priorities and the need to do follow-up action.
Singh said that the district administrations and urban local bodies concerned will hold dialogue with the people.
"The exercise is being conducted as per the vision of the CM, who has envisioned to give quality urban life and matching infrastructure based on inclusive development and growth of urban bodies," Singh said.
Among those present at the review were deputy CM Samrat Choudhary, ministers Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Jiwesh Kumar, as well as CM's principal secretaries Deepak Kumar and S Siddharth, development commissioner Pratyaya Amrit, CM's secretary Kumar Ravi, besides other senior officials of the UDHD.