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 global index report released in 2015 shows India is performing poorly when it comes to sanitation equity and accessibility. While the country was positioned at a dismal 93rd in the overall ‘The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Performance Index 2015’…
Auto rickshaw service, considered to be the lifeline of public transport system here, stares at an uncertain future as the state government plans to curtail their movement on roads as Bhubaneswar is going to be a Smart City. “It is…
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…
People in Varanasi, the Parliament constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will start getting piped cooking gas by March next year, about nine months ahead of the proposed Jagdishpur-Haldia gas pipeline touches the city, with supplies sourced using tankers. State-owned…
Real estate buyers will shortly be able to air their grievances in a hassle-free manner with the state-level Real Estate Regulatory Authority. Once the authority is set up, homebuyers and customers of commercial estates can register their appeals against any…
The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here has become the first hospital in the city to go paperless by adopting the e-hospital system. The e-hospital system aims to provide end-to-end solutions for managing health care processes and services in…
The Telegraph writes : The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) has come up with a plan to develop a state-of-the-art institutional core project area at Satya Nagar to provide a centralised facility to citizens. The project, which will be executed…