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Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray to inaugurate new district headquarters at Palghar today
CIDCO has developed the new district headquarters of Palghar over 103 hectares of land, according to Dr Sanjay Mukherjee, the vice-chairman and managing director of the city-planning agency.
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray is all set on Thursday, August 19, to inaugurate a new administrative complex at Palghar. The building, set up by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), is touted to be the largest administrative complex not only in the state and but also in the entire country. The Maharashtra government had entrusted CIDCO with the task of accelerating the Palghar district, which was formed in 2014 after bifurcating the Thane district.
"CIDCO has developed the new district headquarters of Palghar over 103 hectares of land," wrote Dr Sanjay Mukherjee, the vice-chairman and managing director of the city-planning agency from his official Twitter handle on Wednesday. "This is being inaugurated tomorrow by Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, along with a galaxy of luminaries..."
The CIDCO vice-chairman also provided a link for everyone to watch the inaugural ceremony live from mobile devices since only the invited guests and registered media persons are allowed to physically attend the inaugural ceremony, where the chief minister will be present for the opening of the new administrative complex.
According to reports, the construction for the new administrative complex at Palghar started in 2017 and was initially set to be completed by 2019, but the project kept getting delayed until it was completed in April this year. For the purpose of the new administrative complex at Kolgaon in Palghar, a 103-hectare plot was allotted to CIDCO, reports note. The complex is being built for streamlining the administration of the district; the new building will accommodate most of the government offices like that of the Zilla Parishad, the district collector, and the superintendent of police (SP), all of which earlier used to work out of rented premises.
The new administrative complex in Palghar, set to be followed by two more within the next month, is reportedly a part of measures that the Maharashtra government is taking with the aim to make Palghar a commercial hub with proper industrial growth and all-round development of the tribal areas within the district.
