Central public sector undertaking and Mini Ratna WAPCOS ltd will be constructing its office at Sector 24 of Naya Raipur, officials stated.
Incidentally, WAPCOS has also been assigned the work for preparing Master Plan and feasibility report for River Front Development near Raipur city.
Notably, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) would be constructing of the Central Government Office (CGO) complex at Sector 24 in Naya Raipur.
The CGO complex will be developed in over 1.50 lakh sq meters of land at a cost of `72 crore, officials stated. The complex building will have six storeys and would comprise 30 offices.
Offices of Income Tax, Central Excise and Customs and all the other departments of the Central Government will be located in the complex.
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.