Housing and Urban Development Minister Niranjan Pujari on Saturday visited the office of the Bhubaneswar Smart City limited (BSCl) and reviewed the progress of various major projects being undertaken by BSCl, the special purpose vehicle (SPV).
The Minister visited the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC), the new office floor under construction and took stock of the current status of all major projects under the SPV, at the conference room of the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre. Senior officials of the HUD Department, BMC and BSCl were present at the venue.
The Minister saw a presentation detailing the present status of projects like Smart Janpath, Smart Solutions – Intelligent Communication and Operations Management Centre (BOC), Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System, Common Payment Card (PPP Project), Solar City Roof Top, Saheed Nagar and Raj Mahal multi-level car parking, Social Equity Centre, Integrated Public services centre, Smart Parks, Sensory Park, 3I – Integrated Infrastructure Improvement, Railway Station Multi-modal Hub, lake Neutral, Satya Nagar Institutional Core and Making Bhubaneswar Socially Smart.
The redevelopment of Janpath Road as Smart Janpath includes streetscape design, beautification, landscaping, intersection redesign, and infrastructure upgrades with construction of new pavement, rehabilitation of existing pavement. The Minister asked several questions on the different design interventions and how they would benefit citizens.
He said that as the topper in the Smart City proposal race, the city should finish all the listed projects in time.