With Rath Yatra drawing near, line departments like the PWD, PHED, OPTCl and Cesu are working day and night to complete their respective projects well before the Nabakalebar festival. The PWD has undertaken projects like ROB and bye-pass road at Malatipatapur, Hl bridge at Netapur, second bridge at Atharnala, four-laning road work from the Gridco Chhak to Talabania and a new 100-bed hospital building work.
Similarly, roads from the Hospital Square to Prachi Hotel via Subash Bose Square, Acharya Harihar Square to Swargadwar, Jhadeswari Chhak to the railway station have been completed. Other main city roads like BNR- Station Square, Atharnala-Talabania and Prachi- loknath road works are in full swing and expected to be completed by end of this month. Quality control teams from Bhubaneswar and Cuttack are conducting regular quality tests of these projects.The department has expedited works at such a space that damaged city roads caused due to construction of sewerage and drainage systems and cabling works of the OPTCl and BSNl have been fully repaired.