The Odisha Urban Infrastructure Development Fund (OUIDF) approved nine projects worth Rs905.19 crore for various Urban local Bodies (UlBs) at its 8th Board of Trustees Meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at the Secretariat here on Thursday.
Housing & Urban Development Secretary G Mathivathanan along with OUIDF Chief Executive Sishir Kumar Ratho presented the projects for discussion. The board approved the projects setting timelines for their completion.
Padhi advised the departments to mobilise the UlBs to avail and utilise this facility for enhancing their revenue sources.
He further advised to promote eco-friendly projects like laying of road tops with materials produced from waste plastics. The department was also asked to make appropriate waste treatment and disposal systems in the fish and meat markets. Padhi said the budget for such waste disposal structures should be factored in the project proposal for wet-markets.
Development Commissioner R Balakrishnan advised to develop a model wet-market project proposal for replication in other UlBs. The model project, he said, should have centralised locker-type facility for individual fish sellers. The maintenance of the markets including payment of power bills should be made by the user society of the concerned market.
The approved projects included establishment of two modern wet market at Unit-IV and Ghatikia in Bhubaneswar, 56 vending zones by side of the road leading to the Engineering School in Cuttack, a market complex at the Ganesh Market at Udala, a market complex at Patrapada in Sundargarh, a sewerage system in east and west towns of Rourkela, water supply to Greater Brahmapur and water supply to Gopalpur.
Out of the total cost of the projects (Rs 905.19 crore), the OUIDF would provide Rs 249.02 crore including loan component of Rs126.81 crore and viable gap funding (VGF) of Rs122.21crore.
The meeting also reviewed the progress of the projects approved earlier by the board. The prominent among them are a modern abattoir at Gadakana in Bhubaneswar, a sewerage system at Sambalpur, a sewerage system at Rourkela, a solid waste management project at Brahmapur, affordable housing projects at Chandrasekharpur and Ghatikia in Bhubaneswar, bulk water supply project for IIT, NISER, Infocity-II, Jaani and Khordha, water supply in Brahmapur, reclamation of 14 water bodies in Bhubaneswar, reclamation of three water bodies in Brahmapur, fish markets at two locations in Sambalpur, reclamation of seven water bodies in Sambalpur and regional municipal solid waste processing facility for Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.
A total amount of Rs 383 crore has been disbursed from OUIDF as loan and VGF against these projects.