A joint team of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and he Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) started demolishing two Government quarters of the General Administration Department 4R/3 and 4R/4 in Unit-IX here opposite the Satya Nagar crematorium on Wednesday.
This was the first step towards constructing a new BMC building with the Intelligent City Operations and Management Centre (ICOMC) under the Smart City proposal, for which a total of four 4R quarters and eight 3R quarters would be demolished. In fact, the BMC had applied for the land on January 1, 2017 and the GA Department gave permission on May 30, 2018.
Apart from the 12 quarters there was also a firewood godown of the Odisha Forest Development Corporation (OFDC), which was supplying wood for people coming to use the Satya Nagar crematorium.
The BMC was asked by the State Government to accommodate the OFDC facility inside the crematorium ground for people’s convenience.
In a 2, 31,000-square-feet structure, the proposed BMC office and ICOMC would be developed in an area of 4.04 acres with a cost of Rs 70 crore and would have parking in basement, BMC office on lower and upper ground floors, ICOMC facility on first and second floors, third floor with cafeteria and landscaped area with terrace and all the floors above third floor would have BMC offices.