The Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) has earmarked 46.49 hectares of land for developing a Film City, officials stated. Notably, on February 15 this year, Chief Minister Raman Singh had held a discussion with noted film producer Subhash Ghai in Mumbai regarding scope of film production, setting up of a Film City and Film Institute in Chhattisgarh.

It may be recalled that the second Raipur International Film Festival will be held from April 9 this year. The festival would focus on Iranian Cinema this time round. To expand the reach of film festival this time, four screens would be installed in the city.

Renowned poet Kedar Nath Singh and Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen are expected to attend the seminars held during the course of the film festival. Naya Raipur is among five other cities in the country chosen as ‘Demonstration Cities’ for the Centre’s ambitious Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP).

The final five cities participating as 'Demonstration Cities' under Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) are - Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Mysore (Karnataka), Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad (Maharashtra).

Detailed project profiles were prepared by all cities with the assistance of the SUTP Consultants and then endorsed by the SUTP Steering Committee to be included to SUTP as ‘City Demonstration Projects’, officials stated.

NRDA to cite an example is also going for an ‘Intelligent Rain Water Drainage System’ fixed with indicators to send alert before water logging or flood situation with option for automatic valve opening system, officials stated.

It plans of developing a project comprising IT-enabled systems to manage a host of utilities using state-of-art technology.