Dharamshala smart city to improve city transit

SHIMLA: Shrikant Baldi, Chief Secretary, Dharamsala Smart City Limited (DSCL), has directed a meeting of the Board of Directors for the smart city project to work on bettering the basic facilities of the city, primarily the transit network in the city. The meeting approved to work on left-out streets of the city which span a total road length of 16.10 km, walkways (2.420 km) and stairs (1.42 km) in a budget of Rs 28.63 crore.

Decisions to construct a smart parking at Dalai Lama Temple road in a budget of Rs 5.75 crore and development of a sample ‘smart road’ of 2.75 km from ISBT Dharamsala to Education Board. Badli commented that the city could become smart only by improving the basic facilities at the meeting which saw participation from Devender Jaggi, Mayor, Dharamsala, Anil Kumar Khachi, Finance Additional Chief Secretary, RD Dhiman, Health Additional Chief Secretary amongst other important officials of the city.