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UP comes up with Model City scheme

LUCKNOW: Even as uncertainty looms over the ambitious `smart city' project of the NDA government at the centre, the Akhilesh Yadav government in UP has formalized its very own `model city' scheme. The UP government is learnt to have drawn out a blue print of the facilities which would be provided in the `model cities' proposed to be selected by a panel headed by UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav soon.

Traffic
* Major crossings free of encroachment
* Construction of foot path, foot overbridge and underpass for pedestrians.
* Establishment of non-vehicle zones, vending zones
* Construction of bus stops
* Construction of `cycle tracks'

Civic and power
* Proper drainage system
* Domestic waste segregated and recycled.
* Alignment of electricity poles and cables put underground.
* The street lights to have LED bulbs
* Establishment of public toilets and wi-fi at various important markets.

Education
* Repair and maintenance of existing educational institutes
* Repair of primary health centres and hospitals.
* Open spaces to be used for tree plantation
* Water bodies revived and rain water harvesting implemented.

Heritage
* Heritage points conserved
* Local handicrafts promoted on a larger scale.

Housing and Law and Order
* Affordable houses for urban poor.
* Setting up police outposts, electronic surveillance at various key points in the city.