Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath laid the foundation stone for numerous infrastructure projects worth Rs 605.82 crore under the Ghaziabad municipal corporation through videoconferencing from Lucknow. He additionally rolled out the first five electric buses in the city, out of the total 50 allotted, which are ready to work on four dedicated routes shortly. CM Adityanath dedicated four projects of Rs 88.49 crore and performed ground-breaking ceremonies for several other projects of Rs 517.33 crore. The programme comes ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in the coming months, and the election code of conduct is likely to be declared shortly. The projects earmarked comprise a state of art auditorium in Nehru Nagar, which will provide a chance for conducting events such as cultural activities, exhibitions, among others. They may additionally outsource the working of the auditorium in the future. Other projects cover a shopping complex at Ramte Ram Road and two of their garbage factories at Sihani and Hindon Vihar where solid waste from the city will be segregated and processed, MS Tanwar, municipal commissioner, told the media. He said that the groundbreaking ceremony was taken up for a tertiary sewage treatment facility, which will come up at Indirapuram from where 40 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage water will be treated and provided to industrial units in the Sahibabad Site IV industrial area. The project will cost Rs 319 crore and launch in two years. Once this project gets functional, they will save 40MLD of groundwater as they provide similar amounts to the industrial units. The other project worth Rs 39 crore is multi-level parking, which is offered near the New Bus Adda metro station. The project will likely be completed in a year. Apart from these, the city additionally obtained its five electric buses, and more will reach in the following weeks. Image Source