Bhubaneswar: The state housing and urban development department has set deadlines to execute 33 water supply and 11 park projects under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut) scheme in the city in next two years.

The public health engineering organisation (Pheo) will execute the water supply projects, while the park projects would be taken care of by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation.

Besides, two sewerage treatment plants will come up, for which the Odisha Water Supply and Sewerage Board will swing into action.

"The scheme will come to an end in 2020, and we have to intensify the project execution in order to keep on receiving grants from the Centre. The deadlines have been set for the purpose and circulated among the agencies executing the projects," said a department official.

According to the projects' schedule, the administration will complete two water supply, one sewerage plant and six parks by the end of March, six more water supply and three parks by June, 19 water supply, one sewerage plant and two parks by March 2019. The remaining six water supply projects would be completed by March 2020.

An amount of Rs 336 crore will be spent for the water supply projects, while Rs 50 lakh will be spent for the sewerage plants and Rs 10.48 crore for the park projects.

"More amount is being spent for water supply since there is plan to cover the entire city with the pipe water network," said the department official.

In the water supply projects, piped connection will be extended to areas, including Palasuni, Unit-IX, Saheed Nagar, Sikharchandi, Ghatikia, Jagannathprasad, Bhaktakabi Madhusudan Nagar, Panchasakha Nagar, Satabdi Nagar, Kargil Basti, Ward Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 26, 29, 35 and 37 among others.

Besides, the water treatment plants at Mundali and Ghatikia will also be automated under the scheme.

"We have been working for extension of water supply connection to the uncovered areas keeping our focus on the urban poor," said Pheo superintending engineer Chitta Ranjan Jena.

"We have enough water to supply and the networking now will help to cover the entire city," he said.

Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena said: "For the parks, the open spaces have already been chosen, along with the executor. We will issue direction for its fast completion."