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Members of the saffron party including leaders like Babu Singh and Jagannath Pradhan wore black masks and staged dharna alleging that the BMC has duped the city residents on Self Government Day (Aug 31).

It is pertinent to mention here that Bhubaneswar has literally turned into a dumping yard with garbage being littered and scattered in and around the city for the last two weeks.

According to sources, the Odisha government has identified 200 buildings as unauthorised but not a single building has been demolished thanks to the alleged inaction of the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). 

BMC Mayor expected the impasse would end soon.

In Odisha’s capital city Bhubaneswar, heaps of garbage and plastic waste can be seen piling up on roadside and in several residential areas, laying bare the struggle of the civic authorities to address the issue. These scenes captured on cam are not a sight for the sore eyes.

BMC has been dumping truckloads of garbage at the Temporary Transit Centre (TTC) near Sainik School after the mishap for which the adjoining areas of school premises are now getting polluted.

Last year, BMC had said no to public participation during the Ganesh celebrations.

Smart city Bhubaneswar has been facing the problem of slow traffic; also, traffic holds up for quite sometime. We need to adopt more pragmatic and feasible measures to address the issues.

A look at the abandoned toilets at several places in the Smart City including AG square, Old Town and Jayadev Vihar and it dawns upon the onlookers that the authorities neither had any vision nor any willingness to maintain these valuable assets.

Issuing a fresh advisory to all the grocery stores, the BMC has directed them to put the poster of ‘No Mask, No Goods’ outside the stores. 

The BMC has ordered the fuel refilling stations to not sell fuel to those customers who turn up without wearing a face mask/face cover appropriately. The fuel station owners are also directed to put proper signage in the appropriate place for information of all

The intellectuals, professionals and senior citizens talked about several issues of the city during the interaction with Sarangi.

Could there be anything more delightful and exciting for the foodies in Odisha's capital city, than the reopening of the food hubs at Khao Gali? Yes, you heard that right! The makeshift food stalls at the Khao Gali, the famous 'Eat Street' near Ram Mandir in Bhubaneswar, have been allowed to reopen again after a brief lull, albeit with conditions.

As per reports, the food connoisseurs who were devoid of their favouraite street food for months, can now dip their palettes in the mouthwatering delicacies from 5pm till 10pm every evening.

More than 50 per cent of revenue from the total collections of Rs 150 crore has been collected online in the last financial year.