Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Friday assured the citizens that it has directed the agencies associated with the digging of city roads to lay underground electric and Wi-Fi cables to stop digging post mid-October.
The municipal body during its monthly meeting Friday set October 15 as the deadline for digging. It told the media that the agencies working under the project would not be allowed to continue digging the roads and the work relating to the underground cabling are likely to be completed by the end of October.
The civic authority also assured that a number of hassles relating to road works and others are likely to be sorted out by the BMC to ensure hassle-free roads during the ensuing festival season.
“A stretch of 40-km road has been damaged due to the underground cabling of electric wire and Wi-Fi network is likely to get its final touch before the Durga Puja. The civic authorities would not allow any agency to dig up any road after October 15,” the BMC stated in a press release Friday.
During the monthly meeting at the BMC Conference Hall Friday afternoon, while majority of corporators spoke about the overall road conditions before the Puja, the authorities promised a ward-wise redevelopment work for which tenders are at the final stage.
The urban local body said that it will work towards ensuring proper illumination of the city roads too. “The street lights along the priority road network of 40 km would also be on top priority during the Puja. Purring of trees near streetlight poles where the branches are obstructing the lights and where better lux (unit of illumination) is needed would also be taken up,” BMC said.
According to the corporation, the city is also going to have its city-wide network project unveiled by October much before the World Cup Hockey. The new buses under the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) are now slated to start arriving around October second week and the state-of-the art stainless steel shelters at bus stands would be taking shapes around that time. Around 200-250 buses would start plying across the city before the hockey tourney starts.
BMC Friday said that six major parks across the city would be cleaned jointly by BMC and Bhubaneswar Development Authority for the upcoming World Cup Hockey tournament. The selected parks like IG Park and Biju Patnaik Park would don a new look to attract public during the festival of hockey, which would unite visitors from 16 nations.