Durga Puja shopping for Jamshedpur and Adityapur will be more glitzy than usual this year.
For, the much-awaited P&M Hi-Tech City Centre Mall, Jamshedpur's biggest shopping-cum-entertainment hub by a long shot, is all set to debut before Puja. The multi-crore, eight-storey mall upcoming up on Outer Circle Road in Bistupur is likely to be opened sometime in September.
With a built-up area of over 5.5 lakh sqft, the mall will host a four-star hotel, a plush six-screen multiplex, hypermarkets with high-end retail brands, food court and restaurants, gaming hubs and a spacious parking area.
"P&M Hi-Tech City Centre Mall, a joint venture of filmmaker Prakash Jha and steel city industrialist R.K. Agarwal, will open in September," Sunil Agrawal, personal secretary to Prakash Jha, told this reporter on Sunday.
Jha's personal secretary said the film director was keeping constant tabs on the progress of the mall's construction and was eager to see it open at the earliest.
Finishing touches are now being given to the imposing structure. "Right now, lights and decorative elements are being installed. We will fix the inauguration date sometime next week," the personal secretary added.
Various agencies engaged to install lights, CCTV cameras, air-conditioning, elevators and escalators are carrying out trial runs of these gadgets.
"It takes time to make an elegant structure. We want to make a mall that has something for everyone. Basically, we want people from the steel city, Adityapur and outside to get an ecstatic experience when they drop in," said a marketing executive of the upcoming mall.
The centrally air-conditioned P&M Hi-Tech City Centre Mall, which is being built at an estimated cost of over Rs 200 crore, will change the quiet Outer Circle Road as residents have known it.
Once P&M Hi-Tech City Centre Mall opens, it will also be the first port of call for shoppers in Adityapur, Seraikela and Seraikela-Kharsawan district as a whole. "Outer Circle Road close to Kharkai Bridge will become a hub of activity with the opening of the mall. Our children are quite excited," said Suresh Dhari, who stays in Adityapur.
