Smart City organises “Greenathon” to promote NMT across Bhubaneawar

Bhubaneswar, December 26: Continuing it’s efforts to promote Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) practices across the city, the Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd Sunday organised cyclothon termed “Greenathon” in which around 80 people participated defying the temperature of the chilling winter morning. Senior IPS officer and cycling anthusiast Amitav Thakur inaugurated the event. It started from near HDFC […]

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Gift-a-bicycle: Smart City, BMC donate 15 cycles to Peer Leaders

Bhubaneswar, January 8: The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) on Friday organised “Gift-a-Bicycle” event in which cycles were distributed to 15 Peer Leaders, who were associated with BSCL and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) during the COVID-19 related awareness and sanitation drives. Today’s event was part of the CycleGiri and Cyclothon organized in the city to […]

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COVID observer visits “1929 Call Centre” facility at Smart City

Bhubaneswar, September 8: COVID-19 Observer for Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Principal Secretary Water Resources Anu Garg on Tuesday visited the “1929 Bhubaneswar city Call Center’’ at the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC) of the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL). She urged the call centre executives to patiently deal with the COVID positive cases and their […]

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Covid-19: BMC, Smart City use drones to sanitise Janpath in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: Making use of modern technology in order to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSC), in a joint initiative, carried out spraying of disinfectant through drones from Rajmahal Square to Sishu Bhawan Square on Tuesday. Two drones were used on […]

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Ease of Living survey: School kids roped in to help Bhubaneswar take lead

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd (BSCL) have roped in school children to make Bhubaneswar take the lead in the ongoing Ease of Living Citizens Perception Survey, launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), said an official release. Homework for parents! Sounds strange, […]

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This IAS officer spent Rs 70 lakh to renovate residential quarters in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Sundergarh Collector-cum-District Magistrate Rashmita Panda spent a staggering Rs 70 lakh of Government funds to renovate her residential quarters when she was the Vice-Chairperson of Rourkela Development Authority (RDA) and CEO of the Rourkela Smart City Authority with construction of additional bedroom costing Rs 4,34,861. Details of the renovation work and the expenditure incurred […]

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