Raipur Smart City Limited’s (RSCL’s) initiative to rejuvenate Telibandha lake situated at Marine Drive in capital city bagged the ‘National Excellence Award’ at National Urban Development Summit held at Gurugram, Haryana on Friday.
Official sources in the RSCL informed that the award was given to it for purification as well as for revival of the Telibandha pond.
Union Minister of state for planning, statistics and programme implementation Rao Inderjit Singh handed over the award to Raipur Municipal Corporation Additional Commissioner Pulak Bhattacharya.
Using innovative mode of biological process the ponds based in Raipur capital city under Raipur Smart City Limited and Municipal Corporation, Raipur was revived.
Notable, The RSCL and Raipur Municipal Corporation jointly used the innovative biological method for revival of the pond. This model has been adopted for the first time in the state.
Telibandha pond has been taken as a model, where maintaining environmental balance, naturally, the cleaning of pond was undertaken with technical assistance from Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) and NEERI, Nagpur.
The Telibandha model is being appreciated across the nation and experts from various parts of the country had visited the Telibandha pond and are contemplating to adopt it in their respective cities.
During the summit, Pulak Bhattacharya also gave a presentation of different work plans being undertaken and briefed various schemes being undertaken in order to upgrade the civic amenities.