Workers give finishing touches to the the Badambadi police station on Tuesday. Picture by Badrika Nath Das

Cuttack, Nov. 30: A new police station will start operation in Badambadi from tomorrow. The move is expected to ensure better policing in areas under its jurisdiction.

The area has a floating population and important business establishments, including wholesale trading zones.

“We are keeping everything ready so that when it starts operating every thing is in place,” a senior police official said.

The state home department had on August 30, announced the setting up of three police stations as part of the reconstituted police sub-divisions under Cuttack Urban Police District. Badambadi police station becomes the first to start functioning with Debendra Kumar Mallick as the inspector-in-charge.

Transfer of cases and other paper work related to the police sub-division and creation of the new police station is being carried out, the official said, adding “a lot of preparatory work has been done”.

With the new addition, the total number of police stations in the city has increased to 15.

“It will help in better policing and service to the people. There will be more vigil which will help in reducing response time besides optimisation of the police-public ratio. This will also help in better handling of cases,” he said.

The police station’s limits have been carved out of areas under two existing police stations – Madhupatna and Purighat. “In fact, the Badambadi police station will be one of the most happening police stations in the city,” commissioner of police B.K. Sharma told The Telegraph today.

Apart from Badambadi, which has the bus terminus and a population of over 25,000, the new police station limits would include Chatra Bazaar, Shankarpur, Khannagar, Shakti Nagar, Surya Nagar, Arunoday Nagar, Sriram Nagar, Jhanjirmangala, Rajabagicha, Pithapur, Haripur, Dolamundai, Mahtab Road, Samanta Sahi and parts of Bajrakabati.

The police station will now have one inspector, two sub-inspectors, two assistant sub-inspectors, two havildars, 11 constables and one assistant driver.

It will function from the building, which was once the traffic. Later it became the police outpost and now it shas been renovated to become the new police station.

“Because of its strategic location, efforts are under way to acquire land adjacent to the building. Once that happens, the police station building will be made bigger,” Sharma said.

The Badambadi police station would initially function under the administrative control of the assistant commissioner of police (ACP) zone 4. Later it would be attached to ACP zone 6.

“The Badambadi police station had become necessary in view of the increased population. The bus terminus and business establishments in the area brings people into the area,” said Amlan Patnaik (49), a resident of the nearby Rajabagicha Labour Colony.

Shopkeeper Sirish Mohapatra (45) echoed similar sentiments.

Apart from Badambadi, the state government had declared CDA-II Phase and Central Rice Research Institute as two new police stations in the city.

Kandarpur had also been declared as a new police station under the Cuttack Urban Police District, which also includes the Sadar police station, Barang police station and Choudwar police station. “The two new police stations will start functioning in a phased manner,” Sharma said.

According to the notification the six reconstituted police sub-divisions under Cuttack Urban Police District include Malgodown, Jagatpur and Choudwar (II) Cantonment, Mahila Police Station, Manglabag and Dargha Bazar (III) Lalbag, Bidanasi, Markatnagar and CDA Phase II (IV) Cuttack Sadar, Barang, Energy police station (V) Chauliaganj, CRRI and Kandarpur (VI) Badambadi, Madhupatna and Purighat.