The cabinet on Tuesday approved the Patna Municipal Corporation (meat, fish and chicken) Licence Regulation, 2014, which introduced annual licence fee for vendors concerned.

The cabinet approved the urban development and housing department’s proposal to impose annual licence fee for vendors selling meat, fish and chicken, cabinet department’s principal secretary Brajesh Mehrotra told reporters here at a post-cabinet briefing.

As per the regulation, every shop dealing in the sale of meat, fish and chicken, will have to take licence for which every shop owner would have to deposit Rs 2,000 as annual fee. He, however, made it clear that the vendors belonging to the BPL category would not have to deposit any amount.

In another decision, the cabinet sanctioned Rs 513.26 crore for setting up a sewerage network and treatment plant in Patna under the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) project. Under the World Bank-sponsored NGRBA project, a sewerage network and treatment plant would be set up in the Pahari area, Mehrotra said.

The cabinet approved and sanctioned its part of share (of Rs 513.26 crore) for setting up sewerage network and treatment plant, he said, adding that the central government would fund 70 per cent while the state would bear the rest of the cost. The central government has, so far, sanctioned Rs 1,100 crore in two instalments for the purpose, urban development and housing department sources said.

The project aims at developing the maiden pipeline-based sewerage network in the city. Singapore-based Meinhardt (Singapore) Pte Ltd has prepared the detailed project report. “The existing drainage system has become defunct. The disposal system is based on a drainage network comprising only small and big drains that leads to discharge of untreated wastewater into the Ganga,” the sources said.

The cabinet also approved a modern abattoir in the city under public-private-partnership mode, Mehrotra said, adding that the developer would work on the project under design, built, finance, operate and transfer basis.

It sanctioned Rs 390 crore for 2014-15 for giving subsidies, grants and tax exemptions to the entrepreneurs who have made investments as per the Industrial Incentive Policy of 2006 and 2011.

It also approved another proposal for construction of 1,054 flats by Bihar State Housing Board on 16.50 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs 475.82 crore in the Dalpatpur area in Ara.