ROLLED OUT
Hostels for BK College of Art and Craft
♦ Public works department builds two hostels - one for boys and another for girls - on college campus. Each hostel has 100 seats with all modern accommodation facilities and spacious common rooms. Hostels are within one boundary but are independent blocks. Works department with grant from culture department has renovated an art gallery in college
♦ Cost: Rs 1.65 crore
♦ Project span: Took of towards end of 2013, finished in March 2015
Water supply for Panchasakha Nagar
♦ Pipe water supply project for 4,000 residents at Pancha Sakha Nagar near Institute of Technical Education and Research. Water supply will be sourced from Naraj treatment plant via Khandagiri-Bhimtangi pipeline
♦ Cost: Public health engineering organisation invests Rs 1.10 crore for distribution network of 3-km long pipeline
♦ Project span: Started in 2012, completed in March 2015
Road from City Women’s College to Jagamara
♦ The 2.02-km long road connecting City Women’s College near Siripur Square and Jagamara on Khandagiri-Pokhariput road dubbed as the costliest road ever built in the city. Land acquisition delayed project. Road to help more than 15,000 people of Gandamunda, Jagamara and Khandagiri
♦ Cost: Rs 9.50 crore on construction, Rs 39.50 crore on compensation for land acquisition
♦ Project span: Started in 2010, finished in March 2015
Underground cabling, Rath Road
♦ A Cesu project along Rath Road at Old Town. The stretch is famous for car festival of Lord Lingaraj on Ashokastami every year. Unlike previous years, this time, power supply will not be disrupted
♦ Cost: Around Rs 5 crore to make distribution wires go underground for sake of smooth car festival
♦ Project span: Started in 2014, completed in March 2015
Left embankment of Daya river
♦ Strengthens left embankment of Daya river near Daya bridge on NH-203 on city outskirts. Villages under Dhauli gram panchayat, which are affected by floods in Daya, will be safe. Villages such as Sardeipur, Gopinathpur, Kumardiha and Jagannathpur used to suffer due to breaches on embankment
♦ Cost: Around Rs 6.50 crore through water resources department
♦ Project span: Started in 2013, finished in March this year
FIRST STEP
Dumduma grid station
♦ Under Odisha Distribution System Strengthening Project, state government to finance a primary grid sub-station at Dumduma with two transformers with 5MVA to supply uninterrupted power to Pokhariput, BDA colonies, Bhaktamadhu Nagar, Satyasai Women’s College, Talabania, Jagamohan Nagar, ITER and Dumduma Housing Board Colonies (Phase I to Phase V)
♦ The Rs 4-crore project to act as main sub-station for the area to convert 33KV supply line to 11KV for distribution among consumers
Pokhariput water supply project
♦ Two underground reservoirs with capacity of 9 lakh and 4 lakh litres, respectively, to be used
♦ Public health engineering organisation to invest Rs 1.36 crore and lay a pipeline of 5.23km
♦ Water to be sourced from Naraj treatment plant via Khandagiri-Bhimtangi pipeline
Text: Bibhuti Barik
Pictures: Sanjib Mukherjee and Ashwinee Pati
