The Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) will set up a ‘Disaster Management Centre’ in the new capital.
The campus for the facility would be spread in four hectares of land as per Naya Raipur Development Plan – 2031, officials stated.
It may be recalled that NRDA will also develop an ‘Institutional and Research Area’ in a sprawling 264.95 hectares of land in the new capital.
The new capital region would also have a ‘University Area’ built in an area of 411.5 hectares.
Notably, State PWD, Housing & Environment Minister Rajesh Munat has set August 2016 deadline for officials to complete all nine major works underway in the new capital city.
The works underway include construction of residential houses, bus depot and Control Centre, State Planning Commission building, Christel House School building, Forest Department Headquarters, Water Resources Department headquarters, Commercial Tax and Excise Registration and City Tribunal Building, Director, Health Services office and various others development works at Navagaon and Khapri regions.
The Minister stressed on coordinated efforts between various departments to speed up developmental works and implementation of working plans for development of the new capital city.
Notably, Naya Raipur is among five other cities in the country chosen as ‘Demonstration Cities’ for the Centre’s ambitious Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP).
The final five cities participating as 'Demonstration Cities' under Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) are - Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Mysore (Karnataka), Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad (Maharashtra).
Detailed project profiles were prepared by all cities with the assistance of the SUTP Consultants and then endorsed by the SUTP Steering Committee to be included to SUTP as ‘City Demonstration Projects’, officials stated.
NRDA to cite an example is going for an ‘Intelligent Rain Water Drainage System’ fixed with indicators to send alert before water logging or flood situation with option for automatic valve opening system, officials stated.
It plans of developing a project comprising IT-enabled systems to manage a host of utilities using state-of-art technology.
The design would comprise IT enabled land management system, city surveillance besides a host of other systems till now popular and being used only in the developed countries.
The other city management systems include intelligent lighting systems, pay and use parking systems, city guide map available through web browser, intelligent transport system, city level wi-fi touch screens across the city, display boards across the city for providing real time information, emergency alert and crisis response systems, traffic re-routing applications based on real time traffic data.
The city would also have an Central Control Center for monitoring all the services including central traffic control and management system.
Decks have already been cleared for the development of an 'Electronic Manufacturing Cluster' in Chhattisgarh’s hi-tech capital Naya Raipur.
The Central Government has provided final approval to the project.
Notably, the 'Electronic Manufacturing Cluster' would be established in a sprawling 70 acres of land in Naya Raipur’s Sector-22.