Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved five infrastructural projects worth Rs 265 crore for Puri town at a meeting held at the Lok Seva Bhawan (State Secretariat) here on Wednesday.
It was decided that five infrastructural projects would be undertaken in the Puri town to provide quality service and facilities to devotees of Lord Jagannath. The old jail premises, Jatrika and the municipality market would be developed with construction of 1,250 shop rooms, informed an official release.
A multi-storied parking would be developed each at the old jail campus and the Jatrika. Each parking facility would have capacity for parking of 400 cars so that the problem of parking would be resolved.
The district Collectorate and all other Government offices would be housed under one roof in the interest of the public. The buildings and spaces, to be vacated due to shifting of Government offices, will be used as parks and other citizen-centric facilitation centres.
The municipality market would be renovated to an ultramodern market complex.
Besides, the road at Acharya Harihar Chhak would be widened and various citizen centric facilitation centre and beautification works would be done along it. All these works would be undertaken by the Odisha Bridge and Construction Corporation, informed the release.
Chief Secretary AP Padhi, Development Commissioner Asit Tripathy, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration Chief Administrator Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, Finance Secretary Tuhin Kant Pandey, Works Secretary Dr Krishan Kumar and Puri district Collector Balwant Singh were present.