A Man Behind The Smart City Muzaffarpur

November 13, 2021

SURESH KUMAR SHARMA

A Man Of A Pride, born in a small village of Gansara in Samastipur on 09th October 1946 . No one was aware that this People's Man is going to be the voice of Mankind.When A Child born in any family , They start Wishing That My Child will become a Doctor, an Engineer, an Ips Officer, But Destiny has decided something else for Him.

At The Early Age , When He start Going to School, He was loved by all , due to his sense of collective belonging, way of thinking out of the box, contemplating others problem like his own problems.If there is injustice Suresh Kumar Sharma would be the first person raise the voice against it, Made Him different from The mob.

In 1980, He started his political career as a BJP worker, By working with great Endurance and austere. He became the Minister of housing and Urban

Development .This journey was not easy for him.It took more than 37 year to achieve it.

Suresh Kumar Sharma With Former Prime Minster Of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Suresh Kumar Sharma With Honourable President Ram Nath Kovind

It's quite Difficult to start with nothing to achieve everything. And takes a great effort and determination to do this

Historic Initiative for the Development of Muzaffarpur

After serving indifferent places with different Responsibilities ,He impeccably proved himself flawless .

In November 2010 He was elected as MLA Of Muzaffarpur city.

He worked so rigorously to Make Muzaffarpur A clean and a charming city.

He layed the foundation stone of More than 471+ Roads,Streets and Drainage system of different plan and Project Of Government in his Tenure.

Most Of the projects are completed , and few of them will be accomplished soon.

But even after doing all this development work For His Townsman. He was still not

satisfied with it. Because His Vision was to Make Muzaffarpur "A Smart City".

For that. He continued working rigoursly For it

As the time comes nearby ,

By an impeccable records and achievements, Suresh kumar Sharma

Was chosen as Ministry of Housing And Urban Development in 2017.

And in the same year ,By his painstakingly approach Muzaffarpur got Selected For Smart City Proposal.

What is Meant By Smart City Muzaffarpur

VISION - “Citizens of Muzaffarpur collectively envision a sustainable city, dedicated towards providing

efficient and accountable services and good quality of life to its residents and at the same time positioning

itself as driver of regional economy.” Vision statements has been re-structured, retaining the USP of dual

purpose i.e. a concerted focus on sustainable growth of the city and strengthening Muzaffarpur’s position

as a regional economic driver. Muzaffarpur Municipal Corporation (MMC) submits proposed plan for implementation of this vision. The proposal comprises of interventions at an area level and pan city level selected by the city through various and extensive consultative processes to ensure consensus.

Emerging from the Vision and the strategic directions, the goals that have been re-aligned are as follows:

 REGIONAL - Model of balanced regional development

GOAL 1 : SUGAM - A well- connected city with seamless mobility

GOAL 2 : SAMRIDH - An economically vibrant and prosperous city

 CITY – Sustainable city with well looked after residents

GOAL 3 : SUDRID - A well-functioning smart city

GOAL 4 : SATVIK - An ecologically aware and sensitive city

GOAL 5 : SATAT - A city steering towards sustainability

GOAL 6 : SUSHASIT - A city with commitment to excellence

AREA BASED DEVELOPMENT (ABD) - The selected Area Based Development (ABD) site covers about 990 acres located in the northern part of the city and in between the Burhi Gandak River and the Sikandarpur Mann lake including the existing residential and commercial areas - the CBD and Suttapatti market and a number of slums. The specific interventions designed around retrofitting in line with the identified Goals.

PAN CITY INITIATIVE - The proposed pan-city initiatives have incorporated IT solutions and present a ‘smart’ solution to enable city government to address the identified concerns and achieve city vision. The solutions envisaged are:

1. Intelligent Transport System (ITS) –

the key components of this are as follows:

a. Command and Control Centre (CCC) – a central command zone equipped with adequate ICT

infrastructure mainly for integration of other ICT interventions in urban utilities including traffic and CCTV

surveillance in the city.

b. Intelligent Transport Management system (ITMS) – real-time traffic information system, traffic mapping

on web and mobile app, dynamic traffic signaling system, incident management system, E-Challan

2. Intelligent Street Lighting –

solar powered LED street lights, WiFi, digital signages, pollution sensors

3. Unified City Governance – redevelopment of MRDA building into e-governance center, single window

citizen facilitation centres, mobile apps for government services, creating database and infrastructure for e-learning in government schools, creating database and infrastructure in dispensaries

FINANCIAL PLAN - All projects have been detailed with sub activities, related cost, convergence of funds

from various sources, date of completion, O&M cost and revenue generation. Attention has been given to

detailing the convergence with ongoing central government, state government and externally aided

programmes namely AMRUT, SBM, HFA, NULM, SPUR, Mukhya Mantri Pakki Nali Gali Nischay Yojna,

Mukhya Mantri Shahri Payjal Nischay Yojna, CSR and ULB level initiatives. The total cost of the SCP is

INR 1580 crores comprising INR 1268 crores for the Area Based Development proposal and INR 312 crores for the Pan City proposal .

Conclusion:-

In the last 3 years, some of the noteworthy initiatives at city level under implementation include increase in energy

availability and reduction in

outages; improvements in transport through widening of roads, anti-

encroachment drives, preparation of traffic management plan for CBD; augmenting security through

installation of centrally monitored CCTV cameras at major junctions.

Improvements have been noted in

basic infrastructure especially solid waste management that resulted in the city being ranked 1st in Bihar (2020 )

in SBM rankings and sanctioning of a water supply project. Muzaffarpur has achieved the distinction of

being the second highest collector of property tax in the state after Patna.

All this Become Possible Because of Mr Suresh Kumar Sharma .

Radha Devi Jageshwari memorial Medical College and Hospital

One Major Change Done By Suresh Kumar Sharma , which I would like to share with you all , Because without this information this blog is Incomplete. So AIIMS was all set to built In Muzaffarpur .But Due to some Defection , it just transferred to Darbhanga District , which was a enormous Loss For the Citizen Of Muzaffarpur.we were completely Disheartened.By This whole scenario , Suresh kumar sharma was also affected by this decision as he also Made alot of effort to take back AIIMS in Muzaffarpur , but after getting disappointment He Decided to do something which was beyond the Imagination , Suresh Kumar Sharma is a person who can't see there Townsman devastated.He Took the biggest Decision Ever taken By Any politician , He decided to built a Medical college and hospital by his own . By his blood and sweat earnings He embarked (Radha Devi Jageshwari memorial Medical College and Hospital)

which consists 150 seats For Medical Students And more than 300 Beds For patients , with an impeccable Facilities.

He Did something which Cannot be forgetted by the people of Muzaffarpur in near future

You made this proverb as well versed Example:- "लहरों से डर कर नौका पार नहीं होती

कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती"

At last Just wanted to mark the words of

Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat"

Thankyou Mr Suresh Kumar Sharma and a huge Blessings from the townsman Of Muzaffarpur.

WE LOVE YOU SURESH KUMAR SHARMA