BMC launches Team SHINE, vows to make Bhubaneswar clean & green through enforcement

Bhubaneswar, August 13: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday introduced Team SHINE (Sanitation & Hygiene Inspection for Neat Environment) to ensure cleaner and greener Bhubaneswar through enforcement. Team SHINE comprises 10 teams each having five to six personnel. The teams along with 67 Sanitation Inspectors will seamlessly align with BMC’s vision in making Bhubaneswar clean […]

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BMC adopts innovative step to promote waste segregation in Bhubaneawar 

Bhubaneswar, December 19: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has come up with an innovative approach of putting up thank you note and appeal messages at doorsteps of households to promote waste segregation at source in the city. The drive started at 8.30 AM on Sunday where team of BMC approached the citizens to separate household […]

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Census: 8 OAS officers selected as Charge Officers in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, November 20: As preliminary steps to handle Census activities the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday started training of Charge Officers. Eight OAS officers have been selected as Charge Officers of the current census who underwent the training programme along with Amins and other supporting staff of BMC. The programme conducted with the chairmanship […]

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1929 Call Centre makes 1,839 calls to 645 Red Flag COVID-19 patients

Bhubaneswar, June 10: The idea of giving special attention and care to home isolation patients by categorizing them into Red Flag and Green Flag cases has provided a great relief to the healthcare delivery system of the COVID-19 affected in the city. From the 1,839 cumulative calls made to 645 Red Flag patients identified from […]

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BMC conducts vaccination drive at Beggars’ Home & Social Equity Centre in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, June 5: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday completed vaccination of 68 inmates of ‘Ekamra Nilaya’, the Beggars’ Home, situated at K8 area of Kalinga Nagar under South West Zone of BMC. Special group vaccination in on priority basis of BMC with instructions of Commissioner Sri Sanjay Kumar Singh. The drive here started […]

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Helpdesks at 8 COVID Hospitals make 10K+ calls in 5 days to patients’ kin for health update

Bhubaneswar, May 24: In order to make the kin of COVID-affected remain de-stressed and informed about the daily health status of the patients, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up eight help desks at all the dedicated COVID hospitals (DCH) across the State Capital. During the last five days ending May 23, the helpdesk […]

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BMC plans hotel-hospital tie up for treatment of non-critical COVID-19 patients in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, May 15: In a bid to free up more beds for critical COVID-19 patients at different hospitals, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to rope in hotels for converting into COVID-19 facilities to treat patients with mild infection in the State Capital. Today, the BMC Commissioner, Sanjay Kumar Singh chaired a virtual meeting […]

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COVID-19: BMC carries out massive sanitisation drive in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, May 15: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday started a massive sanitisation drive with dedicated sanitisation vehicles in its three administrative zones. Today under the South East Zone, three vehicles were deployed near Satyanagar Crematorium and carried out the activity to sanitise the public area. According to BMC sources, three dedicated vehicles are […]

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BMC holds loan mela for ‘Safaimitras’

Bhubaneswar, February 5: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Friday organised a ‘loan mela’ under the “Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge” to provide easy loan facility to sanitation workers to buy machines for cleaning septic tanks and sewers so that inhumane practice of manual scavenging can be eliminated. The event was held at Jaydev Bhavan under the chairmanship […]

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Campaign launched to make Utkal University campus plastic-free

Bhubaneswar, January 30: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Alumni Association of Utkal University on Saturday launched an awareness campaign and mass cleaning activity against single-use plastic to make the university campus clean, green and plastic-free, on the occasion of Saheed Diwas – the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

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