BDA Set To Implement Odisha’s First Ever Town Planning Scheme To Make Bhubaneswar Future-Ready 187
Bhubaneswar: With an aim to manage urban expansion and to improve socio-economic activities through a structured and modern process by ensuring that land use planning is integrated with service provision in the Capital City’s expanding peripheries, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA), for the first time in Odisha, is all set to implement the state’s first ever Town Planning Scheme (TPS), through land pooling – a viable alternative to land acquisition – to bring well planned and sustainable urban development in the Bhubaneswar Development Plan Area.
Biju Patnaik Park In Bhubaneswar 1st To Have Rain Water Harvesting System 138
Bhubaneswar: Laying emphasis on water conservation and ground water recharge in the state capital Bhubaneswar amid the unpredictable weather conditions, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has constructed the Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) system in the Biju Patnaik Park, popularly known as the ‘Forest park’.
This is the first park in the city to have this facility which can greatly help in reducing waterlogging and flooding by ensuring that rainwater goes into the ground quickly to avoid groundwater depletion.
The RWH structure in the Biju Patnaik Park is a land-based system, and there is a total of nine recharge pits were constructed at appropriate locations in the park, which spreads over an area of 22 acres of land.