Other States - Orissa   

New building regulations from March next

BHUBANESWAR: City regulatory body Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) on Thursday said a new building regulation for the capital city region would be put in place by March 2008.

The new regulation would focus on developments in peripheral regions of Bhubaneswar city with a major feature to relax building height norms, BDA Vice-Chairman Nikunja B Dhal said here.

In the run up to the formulation of new set of regulation, BDA engaged Town and Country Planning Organisation (TCPO) and IIT-Kharagpur, which was entrusted to prepare Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) for the region, to study different aspects, Mr. Dhal said.

He said the maximum building height of 27-metre in the city could be relaxed outside the core area of the city. The relaxation in building norms would pave the way for construction of high-rise buildings in periphery of the city.

One of such buildings in the offing is proposed mega integrated commercial complex in Chandrasekharpur to be developed by New Delhi-based private firm Unitech.

"We will be signing an agreement with Unitech very soon. Everything has been finalised. The BDA will get Rss 211 crores for 10.74 acre of land in Chandrasekharpur area.

The company would enjoy 90 years of lease," Mr. Dhal, who recently assumed charge, said.

The company would take about four to five years time to complete the project for which it would invest about Rs 600 crores, the BDA Vice-Chairman said.

The new building regulation would also help Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Orissa (IDCO) ambitious plans to erect 17-storied building behind the Fortune Tower.

"When high rise building would come up, we will have to look into many aspects such as fire safety, environment and waste disposal methods. The TCPO will be preparing suggestions on those area," Mr. Dhal said.

He said the BDA was looking at development outer ring areas.

"We will be soon coming up with a mega project in Sanapalli area near Khurda. Certain incentives would have to be given to developers to decongest core areas of Bhubaneswar," he said.

The BDA Vice Chairman also said a string of projects were taken in the capital city. They included Rs 10-crore development plan in Kalinga Nagar, Rs 2-crore project in Patrapara, Rs 1 crore Buddha Jayanti Park development and Rs 4.41 Dhauli Peace Park, he said.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Special film screening
A village of pattachitra artists
Film and Culture fest
New building regulations from March next
Court pulls up Cuttack, Bbubaneswar civic bodies for poor solid waste management
Naveen lays stone for auto complex
e-mail threat: three persons nabbed
Charges framed against Mahanti
Special NSS camp
2 engineering students killed
Declare cholera epidemic: Congress
In Bhubaneswar Today

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu