Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation

Odisha: Vigilance arrests BMC Executive Engineer Jagannath Pattnaik in DA case

24/07/202525/07/2025Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, July 24: The Odisha Vigilance Department on Thursday arrested Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Executive Engineer Jagannath Pattnaik for allegedly possessing assets, including three multi storeyed buildings including one Bhubaneswar and three high value plots in the State capital city. According to the Vigilance communique, another wildlife case was instituted against Pattnaik for illegal possession […]

Odisha: BMC Executive Engineer Jagannath Pattnaik in Vigilance net

23/07/202525/07/2025Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, July 23: On the allegation of possession of disproportionate assets( DA) to the known sources of income by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Executive Engineer Jagannath Pattnaik, simultaneous house searches are being conducted by Odisha Vigilance in four places in Bhubaneswar and Gunipur of Rayagada district. The raids are being conducted six DSPs, ten Inspectors, […]

Odisha: Decoding public anger against BMC’s utter failure and way forward

22/09/202425/09/2024Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

By A.K. Sahoo Bhubaneswar, Sept. 22: The unpleasant reported incident of some residents of Ward 45 of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) urinating in the chamber of BMC city engineer on Saturday needs an in-depth analysis. A proper dissection of the incident will shed lights on the systemic rots in the state’s premier urban body. This […]

BMC geared up to meet any exigency in case of cyclone: Mayor

04/05/202305/05/2023Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, May 4: Bhubaneawar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Sulochana Das on Thursday chaired a meeting to review civic body’s preparedness to deal with a cyclone and asked officials to be prepared for any eventuality. The meeting comes after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its forecast that a cyclonic circulation is likely to develop […]

BMC launches ‘Ward Re Dine’ programme in Bhubaneswar

02/05/202303/05/2023Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, May 2: The Bhubaneawar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday launched “Ward Re Dine” (A day in a ward) – a citizen connect programme at Ward no 67. The programme is aimed at strengthening grassroots initiatives through participation of people. This outreach activity is designed to go to people and talk to them and widen […]

STAMP 3.0 kicks off to give Bhubaneswar a new look ahead of Hockey World Cup

30/11/202230/11/2022Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, November 30: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday launched the third edition of the Street Art and Murals Project (STAMP 3.0) in order to give a new look to the State capital city’s walls with Odisha’s street art and murals ahead of the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup in January 2023. Artists of […]

Odisha ULB polls: BJD announces Mayor candidates

05/03/202207/03/2022Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, March 5: Ahead of urban local body elections in the State on March 24, the ruling BJD on Saturday announced names of three Mayor nominees for the three municipal corporations in the State. While Sulochana Das has been chosen as the Mayor candidate for Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Rajya Sabha member Subash Singh has […]

Urban polls: Draft booth list shared in all party meeting

10/02/202211/02/2022Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, February 10: An all-party meeting was organised at the Special Circuit House here to invite suggestions and comments over the preliminary booth list for the civic body elections. Chaired by Bhubaneswar Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Prafulla Kumar Swain, the discussion was held on locations of booths and ward-wise booth distribution. Suggestions were invited regarding […]

World Toilet Day: BMC calls for cooperation for better sanitation in Bhubaneswar

18/11/202118/11/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, November 18: The Temple City’s sanitation status relating to toilets is quite impressive and others are happy to follow in our footsteps, said BMC Additional Commissioner Laxmikant Sethi while participating at the city level celebration of World Toilet Day. Participating at the event as the chief guest in Mayfair Hotel, the additional commissioner said […]

World Kindness Day observed in Bhubaneswar

13/11/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, November 13: World Kindness Day was observed at Kindness Hub of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) here on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, BMC Additional Commissioner Laxmikant Sethi said, “Kindness being a qualitative aspect of human behaviour has to be in practice and it will bridge up gaps of development.” He also suggested for massive […]