Berhampur Municipal Corporation promises infrastructure boost for Silk City

Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed to build up parking places in different parts of the city to ease traffic congestion. Speaking to newsmen regarding developmental plans of the BMC, city mayor Siba Shankar Dash said a major parking place was proposed to be constructed at the old bus stand area of the city. It would be developed into a multi-storeyed parking lot, he said. It may be noted that this old bus stand had been cleared off encroachments a few months ago. According to Mr Dash during the year 2013-14 digital traffic signals would be installed at some more major squares in the city. A new amusement park cum water sport complex would come up at Agulabandh tank in Gosaninuagaon area of the city, he added. Apart from it new vending zones were also on the anvil to provide employment opportunity to vendors who had lost their livelihood due to anti-encroachment drive. According to the mayor, since 2008 the BMC had taken strict measures to remove encroachment so that major roads in this traditional city could be streamlines for traffic. Till now encroachments had been removed from 28 major locations in the city.

The BMC is all set to have a Rs 70-crore-worth solid waste management project for Berhampur. As per the authorities of the BMC, such a project is being taken up for the first time in any urban area of the state. This project would be taken up on Private Public Participation (PPP) mode.  This project is being taken up with collaboration with International Financial Corporation (IFC), which is providing technological and tactical support for the solid waste management project of the BMC. The site demarcated for the project was located near Mohuda village on the outskirts of the city. As per the plans the BMC would be in charge of collection of waste from each and every household of the city from the doorstep of the inhabitants. The BMC would collect some monthly fee from households and other establishments for it. The waste collected from the city would be transported to the solid waste management plant at Mohuda by trucks by an agency selected through tender by the IFC.

Source: The Hindu

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