The Chhattisgarh Government is in the process of developing a ‘Nature Safari’ near Raipur on the lines of ‘Jungle Safari’ in Naya Raipur. The work on Nature Safari is expected to be completed by 2019, officials informed here on Thursday.
The ‘Nature Safari’ is being developed on a sprawling 1450 acres of land at Mohrenga village about 40 kms from Raipur on Kharora-Tilda road. The ‘Jungle Safari’ on the other hand in Naya Raipur is spread over 800 acres of land while the ‘Nature Safari’ would be covering an area of around 12 kms.
The Jungle Safari comprises of four separate Safaris including Herbivore Safari, Bear Safari, Tiger and lion Safari.
Around 166 personnel including officials, doctors, zoo-keeper, guard and other staff are deployed for taking care of animals in the Safari.
The Chhattisgarh Government has also earmarked 258.48 hectares of land in the capital for setting up a ‘Nature Resort’ and a ‘Theme Park’ in future, officials stated.
On the other hand, it may be recalled that a 'Theme Residential Township' — the first of its kind in Central India would have people living in sort of a ‘getaway’ location surrounded by natural surroundings in the new capital city.
The State Government recently informed that the ‘Purkhauti Muktangan’ had also been developed with the vision to promote culture, tradition, and archeology.
Traditional sculptors of Chhattisgarh have given it the shape of cultural heritage. Spread over 200 acres of land, Purkhauti Muktangan is situated nearly 20 km away from village Uparwara, officials informed.
Soon rock garden and aquarium will also be developed at the Purkhauti Muktangan premises which will further enhance its significance, they informed.
Rural Engineering Department Abhanpur and Raipur besides Chhattisgarh Tourism Board have been appointed implementation agency under Purkhauti Muktangan Scheme.
Till date, development works on 20 acres of land have been completed, which includes landscaping, civil work, installation of fountain and water stage.
Development works of the first phase include construction of magnificent entrance, tourist information centre, path-way, media path, Baiga Chowk Devgudi, Chhattisgarh Haat, Chhattisgarhi Chowk, tribal traditional shade, amusement park, roads and water supply facility, workshop for iron craftsmen, traditional net for mural paintings, construction of freedom fighters' statutes, boundary wall construction, making of Chhattisgarh's map that will highlight the greatness of Chhattisgarh.
It may be recalled that the Chhattisgarh government has also commenced the process for setting up the 'Tribal Museum and Tribal Research & Training Centre' at the ‘Purkhouti Muktangan’ premises here, officials informed.
NRDA will also be developing an integrated adventure sports facility at Sendh lake in the new capital region.
It may be also recalled that the Chhattisgarh government would also re-create models of Bastar and Surguja division jungles and other natural beauty of Chhattisgarh in the proposed Film City to come up at Naya Raipur.
The nature based models would be created for enabling shooting of films which would also help showcase Chhattisgarh in global cinematic space, officials informed.
NRDA has earmarked 10 acres of land for the Film City.
The Chhattisgarh government is now also betting big on promoting film industry by planning to develop world-class film production infrastructure in the State.
Five residential sectors having more than 8000 dwelling units have been completed in Chhattisgarh’s new high tech capital Naya Raipur, officials informed.
The habitation in the residential sectors has also commenced, they informed.
It may be recalled that the NRDA will also develop a ‘land Management System’ for managing disposal of land for infrastructure development, officials informed.
Naya Raipur as a Smart City will leverage the collective intelligence created by connecting physical, institutional, social and economic infrastructure to deliver a quantum improvement in the quality of life of local population, they informed.
Notably, the new capital city of Chhattisgarh is a ‘green field’ city and is planned to develop its infrastructure gradually in order to provide world class amenities and facilities to its residents and visitors.
NRDA has taken the next step in “Smart City’ development with plans now for ‘Information & Communication Technology” (ICT) enablement of infrastructure and citizen services, officials informed
Notably, Naya Raipur is already 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.
It plans of developing a project comprising IT-enabled systems to manage a host of utilities using state-of-art technology. The design would comprise IT enabled land management system, city surveillance besides a host of other systems till now popular and being used only in the developed countries.
The other city management systems include intelligent lighting systems, pay and use parking systems, city guide map available through web browser, intelligent transport system, city level wi-fi touch screens across the city, display boards across the city for providing real-time information, emergency alert and crisis response systems, traffic re-routing applications based on real time traffic data.
The city would also has a Central Control Center for monitoring all the services including central traffic control and management system.
