Agra to get metropolitan status

Vishal Sharma
Agra. With the UP government sanctioning the proposal to transform Agra into the 27th metropolitan city of the country, 167 villages located adjoining to the city boundaries will face complete extinction by 2010.

According to the guidelines issued by the state government, against the earlier proposal of including 71 villages in the metro city area, the new proposal engulfs 167 villages of Bichpuri, Barauli Ahir, Etmadpur and Khandauli development blocks that shall be taken over by the Agra Municipal Corporation under a composite development plan.

In the initial stage that shall begin by mid-2006 the villages shall have some independent existence of their own through their own local governing bodies that shall execute the development plans prepared by the Agra Development Authority but by the year 2010, all the marked villages shall be finally merged into the city limits, to be governed by the Agra Municipal Corporation.

Till date only 26 cities of the country are notified as metropolitan cities and in Uttar Pradesh, Agra shall be the second city after Kanpur to be granted metropolitan status with Lucknow still left behind in this race despite being the state capital.

According to Agra Municipal Commissioner Shyam Singh Yadav, the preparations for granting metro status to the Taj city have already begun and as soon as the final proposal was drafted by the Agra Development Authority, the notification for the entire area marked by the ADA shall be issued by the Municipal Corporation.

He said currently, the notification for granting metropolitan status to the town would only affect the planning in the notified area and all the new rural areas coming under this notification shall adapt an integrated city development plan.

Meanwhile, the Agra Development Authority has started to modify the city development plan according to the new guidelines, which shall also mean the re-classification of various areas of the town into commercial and residential areas.

More than one thousand large milk dairies that were functioning inside the town area have been given marching orders to relocate outside the notified limits of the Agra metropolitan city that could extend for 8-10 km. in all directions.

While this step of the ADA had been welcomed by the own planners, the imminent relocation of milk dairies has also caused a hike in milk prices in the town by Rs. 2 - 3 per litre that is expected to take a further upward surge with the beginning of Summer.

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