100 DAYS ACTION PLAN HEALTH, ROADS & RIVER

Now that a 'plan' is in place, the citizen need not brood over daily woes, right? Anup Verma, Ifrah Mufti, Shekhar Singh, Ashish Srivastava & Prabhat Shukla outline the proposed 'swift systemic changes' we might expect, while also reminding the goverment of what we will

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WE were told, the new government hit the ground running even before it was formed! There were whispers of a 100-day action plan' coming up to swiftly improve our lives; well, address some basic necessities at least.

A high-level meeting of bureaucrats was reportedly convened before the Cabinet was sworn-in, 'setting clear targets for departments to achieve within the first three months'. From implementing the Ayushman Bharat health scheme to addressing pollution in the Yamuna, fixing the city's drainage, improving sanitation, and revamping road infrastructure, the administration plans to move swiftly to fulfil its 'poll promises'.

The Ayushman Bharat scheme’s rollout has been prioritised, with the goal of enrolling one lakh beneficiaries. There’s a renewed push to clean the Yamuna, deploying advanced machinery and revisiting stalled projects.

Drainage issues, a major cause of waterlogging during monsoons, are being ‘dealt with’.A plan to clean 77 key drains before the rains arrive, coupled with, efforts to enhance sanitation is in place. It remains to be seen how the new government ensures coordination between civic agencies, a persistent hurdle in addressing longpending issues, and even called into question by the Supreme Court. Anyway, the PWD has initiated repairs on 54 major roads, aiming to make Delhi’s streets pothole-free!

'AYUSHMAN BHAVA'

One of the BJP’s key poll promises was implementation of the Ayushman Bharat scheme in Delhi. Now we know the bureaucratic machinery swung into action while the BJP bigwigs were still choosing the chief minister. A high-level meeting of 24 top officials, chaired by the Chief Secretary, was convened for swift implementation of key promises in BJP’s ‘Viksit Delhi Sankalp Patra 2025’.