Rooms for 1 lakh pilgrims, parking places with bio-toilets to come up
Chief Secretary Gokula Chandra Pati on Wednesday asked the concerned departments to complete all the infrastructural and other service oriented projects well before Nabakalebar of lord Jagannath and His siblings in 2015.
Pati issued directions after reviewing progress of the projects at a meeting held at the State Secretariat here. The projects which reviewed include development of road & traffic, development of parking places, doubling of railway lines, renovation of the platform, electricity arrangement with underground cabling, health and sanitation services, accommodation of tourists, drinking water, drainage and sewerage system, police and security arrangements, rehabilitation and management of stray cattle.
The meeting set different time limits for different projects between December 2014 and March 2015. It was decided that bumper parking places with bio-toilets would be developed at Talabania and other demarcated places along NH-203.
Puri district Collector was asked to convene a meeting of various voluntary organisations and charity organisations to seek their coordination for health and sanitation services.
The Chief Secretary directed to make a contingency plan for hassle free transportation of Brahmadarus after their identification.
It was revealed that a six-bed ICU in the District Headquarter Hospital has been completed and made functional. Works for a traumacare centre, a casuality unit and 100-bed hospital for infectious diseases in the DHH premises are going on full swing and expected to be completed before December 2014. There would be a definite crisis management health plan to deal with any emergency situation.
It was decided that temporary accommodations would be constructed for around 1 lakh pilgrims during the Nabakalebar. Both the free and low cost temporary accommodations would be constructed.
The security provisions include CC TV network, watch towers, checking of identity, crowd control and traffic regulation. CCTVs would be put both inside and outside of the Shreemandir, Badadanda, Sea beach and other critical places.