The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started the process of engaging rag pickers in segregation of municipal solid waste. In the first phase, 500 rag pickers have been identified and provided with identity cards. “On December 12, the civic body…
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation plans to run electric buses on select routes in the Smart City. A private consultancy firm will be hired to conduct a feasibility study for the purpose. “The survey will help us in chalking out the…
The civic body will install 3,600 dustbins at 1,800 locations across the city to ensure better waste management and a cleaner city. By February 1, as many as 1,000 bins will be set up at 500 locations. Each location will…
A joint squad of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started eviction drive to evict unauthorized vendors from footpath and cycle tracks in the smart city. The squad on Tuesday has cleared pavements and cycle tracks from…
It looks like the city can finally have a bicycle track that cyclists can actually use. The Bhubaneswar Developement Authority and city police have jointly embarked upon a restoration of a 22 kilometre-long bicycle track that had hitherto been encroached…
Bhubaneswar has turned empty walls of public lavatories into canvases for paintings, urging people to stop open defecation altogether. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken an innovative art route to give powerful message to stop open defecation at the same…
New Indian Express writes: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday finalised the tender for a 800-bed hospital network project. The project includes a multi-specialty medical facility to be built at Gadakana and upgradation of hospitals at Kapila Prasad, Gadakana,…
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to phase out traditional street lights in the third phase of installation of energy efficient LED lights in the city. At present, around 20,000 LED street lights have already been installed in two…
The name of the weekly event “Raahgiri,” aimed at promoting non-motorised transport system in the Capital city, was rechristened on Saturday. The new name was announced by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena. The new name is ‘Bhubaneswar Pathotsav,…
Sunday fun is all set to be back with Raahgiri 2 that will begin from November 27 again in the capital city. Citizens can suggest new name for Raahgiri in the official Facebook page of ‘Bhubaneswar Smart City’ and stand…