The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has identified 5.519 acres of land at Madhusudan Nagar in the city for construction of its new headquarters.
“The BMC will have a state of the art headquarters building soon,” a Press release said, informing that the BMC has moved the General Administration Department for allotment of 1.934 acres of land in the first phase for the purpose. The proposed main office building will have all wings of BMC at one place.
Similarly, the BMC has identified 3.190 acres of land to develop a modern commercial complex in Gopabandhu Nagar (Bachelors’ Barrack) in Unit-8. A proposal for allotment of the land would soon be sent to the GA Department.
A team of senior Government officers led by the Development Commissioner and accompanied by the GAD Special Secretary and BMC Commissioner visited and finalised the sites on Tuesday.
In another development, the BMC has also identified space for development of seven state of the art multi-level parking places, to come up on PPP mode in city.
The parking places will come up at Bapuji Nagar, Rajmahal Square, behind the Market Building, Ashok Nagar, CRP Square and at Saheed Nagar.
Similarly, two surface parking will be developed, one between the Raj Mahal and the Master Canteen Squre and another between the Rupali Square and the Vani Vihar square. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held under chairmanship of BMC Commissioner Dr Krishan Kumar on Thursday A joint survey team comprising GA Department, BDA and BMC and Commissionerate Police (Traffic) officials had recommended to this effect.
In the first phase, the BMC would submit proposal to GA Department for allotment of land for construction of two multi-level parking at Ashok Nagar and the CRP Square and for the construction of the two surface parking.