Fifteen 2019-batch IAS trainees on Saturday visited the office of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) and the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC) to understand the functioning of the various Smart City Projects.
It was part of their winter study tour to the Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Department.
During their visit senior officials of BSCL apprised them regarding the progress of the various projects undertaken by the special purpose vehicle.
They were also briefed about how infrastructure projects like Smart Janpath, multi-level car parking, integrated public service centre, social equity centre and how in various ways they would help citizens in future.
Socially Smart Bhubaneswar, a collaborative initiative of BSCL, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and United Nations Population Fund which was initiated in January 2017 in eight slums under Bhubaneswar Town Centre District (Smart District) and currently covering 100 slums of the city was also discussed in detail and how it has helped the slum population was also deliberated.
The trainee IAS officers will visit the Bhubaneswar Development Authority on Sunday to understand various public-private-partnership (PPP) projects undertaken by the development authority across the Odisha capital.
Gadag: Police claimed to have cracked the mystery behind the murder of four of family…
Bhubaneswar: Seven members of a gang have been arrested by the Commissionerate Police for allegedly…
Aligarh: Professor Naima Khatoon has taken charge as the first woman Vice Chancellor of Aligarh…
Bhubaneswar: With major political parties giving pace to their campaign for the twin elections in…
Bhubaneswar: A day after making it to the top of the country’s heat map and…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that yoga guru Baba Ramdev's public apology…
Mumbai: The second gun used in firing incident outside actor Salman Khan's residence on April…
He was called the ‘Elvis of Punjab’. He was called the ‘Voice of Vice’ From…