An advanced scheme to populate Naya Raipur will be implemented soon, vice-chairman of Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) SS Bajaj announced on Friday.
He further informed that necessary infrastructure development of Naya Raipur has been done in a rapid pace.
Addressing the inaugural function of the one-day workshop on oriented development, jointly organised by the NRDA, the World Bank and the Sustainable Urban Transport Project, Bajaj said that now, simultaneous development of residential and commercial activities were being done, in accordance to the city development scheme centred on minimum use of transportation in the new era.
In the workshop, chief executive officer, NRDA, Amit Kataria said that transit oriented development was such a scheme that residential, commercial and public utility institutions would be developed near the corridors of public transport.
“Such corridors have been developed for dense population, in which common man would get maximum opportunity for housing. The scheme is being prepared to fulfil the housing needs of every person in the modern city. Suggestions received in the workshop would be sent to the Government for approval,’’ Kataria remarked.
Special city planner of City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) Mumbai, Arpna Mridula, city planner, Delhi Development Authority, Pramita Rai, Urban Public Transport Company limited’s Swati Khanna, former joint director of City and Village Investment KP Bajpai, additional CEO of State Urban Development Authority (SUDA) Choubey, Planning advisor of NRDA Dilip Shekdar, chief project manager lK Panigrahi and officers of City and Village Investment, Municipal Corporation and Raipur Development Authority were present at the workshop.