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MoS Hardeep Puri pledges to do his best to meet targets

Bureaucrat-turned-politician Hardeep Singh Puri, who took independent charge as Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs on Monday, said, “The urban…

MoS Hardeep Puri pledges to do his best to meet targets

Hardeep Puri (Photo: Twitter)

Bureaucrat-turned-politician Hardeep Singh Puri, who took independent charge as Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs on Monday, said, “The urban housing and development challenges are daunting and transformative and I intend to give my best to meet the targets under various new urban missions”.

Speaking to the media, he said, “The priorities for urban sector have already been outlined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and I would like to work on them”. He said the Prime Minister, who has the mandate of the people, is transformative in several ways and the new ministers would like to draw upon their strengths to achieve the tasks given by the PM.

Puri noted that his ministry was  a hardcore development-oriented ministry and various new urban missions launched over the last three years have been doing well on the ground and “I have no doubt we are on way to accomplishing the tasks in given timelines”.

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On how he looks at the challenge of achieving targets under various missions, Puri said, “There are two sets of targets — some to be achieved by 2019 and some by 2022. If challenges are not met in two years, they can’t be met even in six years. Going by the progress on the ground, they can be met”.

Later, he held a two-hour review of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) and elicited information about various aspects of the target of ensuring decent pucca houses to all the needy urban poor by 2022. He also queried about the expected demand for affordable housing in urban areas besides well performing and not so well performing states.

Puri will be attending the inauguration of the first phase of the 8.50 km stretch of Lucknow Metro between Transport Nagar and Charbagh tomorrow.

 

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