we will follow chandigarh to extend facilities to our slum dwellers and will try to provide houses on the basis of lease and rent we will speed up our development accompanied by officials of chandigarh municipal corporation the visitors were unabashed in their compliments to the city and its people chandigarh has been able to put together such civic facilities in few years something which patna could not in a hundred in fact the bihar legislators were so impressed with the ut and some of its laws that they said they would recommend taxes on drinking water and other civic services to earn revenue for development of patna on the chandigarh pattern the rock garden of course left them speechless though its anybodys guess if they will attempt to replicate nek chands masterpiece sinha who is also leader of bihar legislative councils 10member committee on urban development added we had heard about the city beautiful back home but what we found here was far from our imagination chandigarh not surprising entirely because laloo yadavs dreams of making bihar roads as smooth as hema malinis cheeks have remained just that a dream mlcs hari narayan chaudhary raghuvansh yadav and shiv prassan yadav were surprised with the citys sanitation system and its parks too interestingly patna is one of the oldest inhabited places in the world while chandigarh is one of the newest its parks are a rarity in the country some of the committee members said effusively lack of political will was responsible for the poor development of patna and other cities of bihar sinha who is also bjp spokesperson in bihar said the planned development of chandigarh proves that nothing is impossible if it is coupled with vision and political will incredulous bihar legislators on a visit to the city on tuesday were taken aback by its beauty fantastic planning we dont find this anywhere in patna oh so much greenery such good streets exclaimed kiran ghai sinha one of the mlcs on tour here