Jalandhar Cantonment to get ‘smart’ soon

Rachna Khaira

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 11

Jalandhar Cantonment will soon wear the tag of a ‘smart cantonment’ as the authorities here are going to provide state of the art facilities to its residents.

Though the authorities here had participated in the smart cantonment contest organised by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) last year, except Ferozepur, no other cantonment from Punjab could qualify the parameters sought by the MoD.

Following this, the Jalandhar Cantonment Board has decided to take the initiative of development on its own and has even got a grant of Rs 1.20 crore from the government to carry out development work. While informing this to The Tribune, Jalandhar Cantonment CEO Meenakshi Lohia said the focus would be on providing better services to the residents of Jalandhar Cantonment Board (JCB) limits.

“This will include a provision for two more parking spaces, cycle tracks, improvement in sanitation levels, better security system by installing CCTV cameras, improvement in school and hospital infrastructure, installation of solar panels, LED lights and water harvesting system,” said Lohia.

She further informed that under the e-governance project, the JCB had already done 100 per cent computerisation of the birth and death records. “Also, we are soon going to provide online facility of paying property and water charges to our residents,” said Lohia.

The authorities are also planning to deal with the ‘cattle menace’ in the days to come. Though the area has been declared as a ‘no cattle zone’ many years ago, the roads could be seen obstructed by cattle many times in a day.

Also, the authorities are planning to join hands with the Municipal Corporation of Jalandhar (MCJ) for the disposal of solid waste generated from its area.