The Agartala Municipal Company (AMC) Friday introduced it is going to develop ‘Larger Agartala’ comprising 51 wards of the civic physique and 49 gram panchayats.
Chatting with reporters after an official assembly, Agartala Mayor Dipak Majumder stated the grasp plan for extending the town was nearly prepared. He added that the idea of ‘Larger Agartala’ was being formulated retaining in thoughts the necessities of the town for the following 20 years.
“There was no grasp plan for Agartala metropolis previously. The primary grasp plan began being developed after the BJP-led authorities was shaped within the state (in 2018). Step one in that route was accomplished right this moment. This may assist with finalising routes for metro providers, overbridge websites, roads, or appropriate websites for industrial areas in and across the metropolis sooner or later. All these features might be marked within the grasp plan,” Majumder stated.
The present Agartala metropolis was based in 1838 by the then monarch Maharaja Krishna Kishore Manikya Bahadur. The municipality was shaped in 1871 below Maharaja Chandra Manikya, with AWB Energy, who was the British Political Agent for Hill Tipperah, appointed because the chairman.
The final main growth of the Agartala municipal space was carried out in the course of the tenure of former chief minister Manik Sarkar in 2004, when the civic limits elevated from 16.012 sq km to 62.02 sq km.