Tag: Bda

Bhubaneswar: The tension prevailing for the last three days in Daruthenga village on the outskirts of the capital city over the dumping of garbage at the Bhuasuni dumping yard eased today after the villagers removed the blockade on the Baranga-Chandaka road following a meeting with the police. But the villagers have given two days to […]

Bhubaneswar: The General Administration (GA) department has sought a progress report on implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on the allocation of flats/plots/houses under the discretionary quota (DQ) from the investigating agencies and concerned departments of the State government. A letter in this regard has been issued by the GA department to the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has served a show-cause notice to Tourism and Culture minister Ashok Panda for availing multiple plots/houses under the discretionary quota (DQ) allotment of the government. Housing and Urban Development minister Pushpendra Singhdeo revealed this information while replying to a written question posed by Prafulla Majhi in the Assembly recently. […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) today started demolishing a Hanuman mutt near Jayadev Vaitka in Khandagiri area here, which was allegedly built illegally on a government land, amid stiff resistance from locals. Tension ran high in the locality as BDA officials reached the spot along with police force to raze the mutt but faced […]

Bhubaneswar: The state government has decided to auction the lands belonging to Lord Jagannath lying under the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) limits for which Sri Jagannath Temple Administration on Wednesday inked an MoU with the BDA in presence of CM Naveen Patnaik. In the first phase, 220 acres of land will be sold. “We have […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has set up a committee to facilitate a team from the Ministry of Earth Sciences conducting a seismic micro-zonation mapping for the entire Bhubaneswar Development Plan Area (BDPA), an official said. The team of experts from the ministry has started the initial survey for the purpose. Bhubaneswar is a leading city […]

Bhubaneswar: To boot socio-cultural art of the State, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) in association with Artists Network Promoting Indian Culture (ANPIC) has been constructing an open air sculpture museum in five acres of land at Kalinga Nagar here. As many as 21 artists from 14 countries have congregated to create sculptures from waste materials […]

By Sandeep Sahu Some time at the beginning of the 1990s, an acquaintance offered this author a piece of land near Bahai Bhavan, close to the already bustling CRPF Square, for Rs 10, 000. Even after making allowance for the fact that the ‘offer’ was made over two and a half decades ago, this was […]

The alumni and parents’ associations of Unit 6 Government Boys High School in the heart of the city recently wrote to local MLA, MP and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking immediate suspension of boundary wall construction by the BDA on about 1.5 acres of land of the school citing it is lying unutilised. 

Bhubaneswar: A month-and-a-half after the cyclone Fani battered Odisha, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Wednesday started validating a list of the city’s street vendors affected by the calamity in order to provide each of them an assistance of Rs 10,000, officials said. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced last month that about 30,000 street vendors […]

Bhubaneswar: Around six houses that were illegally constructed on government land at Haldipadia slum were razed to ground in a special drive undertaken by the joint enforcement squad of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday. All the unauthorized constructions were demolished amidst tight security arrangements by Commissionerate Police. The authorities […]

Bhubaneswar: The development body of the smart city, Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) on Sunday passed several resolutions with an aim to make Bhubaneswar a world-class city during the observance of its 37th Establishment Day at Jayadev Bhavan yesterday. A slew of housing projects for middle-class people, bus terminal, shopping complex and parking lot have been […]

Bhubaneswar: Despite strict orders from Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) to different commercial establishments to stop collecting off-street parking fees on their premises, norms are being flouted in the name of facilitation fee. During a reality check by OTV, it was found that BDA order is being flouted in prominent shopping malls like DN Regalia Mall, […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking cognizance of the collection of parking fees ‘illegally’ despite restrictions, Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) on Monday issued notices to as many as 14 hospitals and shopping malls in the city for violating off-street parking norms. The notices have been served to- Symphony Mall (Rudrapur), The World Mall (Madhusudan Nagar), Forum Mart (Kharavela Nagar), […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) jointly began a demolition drive at decades-old Lingaraj Market complex in the Old Town here on Friday. Four JCB machines were engaged by the authorities for the demolition drive which began as per a prior notice. One platoon of police force has been deployed […]