Reacting to some news items, the Government has clarified that it has not taken any piece of the Ekamra Kanan land back to the fold of the General Administration Department. Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy has said the Ekamra Kanana is a place of pride for Bhubaneswar and the Government is committed to improve it further.
“The Government gives the highest importance to the regional plant resources center functioning in the Ekamra Kanan with its wide ranging activities in biotechnological research. The place will be kept up and maintained as a public place of prominence,” he said. The Horticulture department has surrendered some of its unutilised land lying vacant for five decades in mouza Jayadev Vihar and Paika Nagar..