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Konark Horse to get facelift

Staff Reporter

Proposal will be materialised only after two months, say BDA sources

Plan to bring aesthetic look to the surface
Tenders to be invited soon

BHUBANESWAR: The famous circuitous structure around Konark Horse at Master Canteen Square, which has been the symbol of Bhubaneswar, may get altogether a new look.

The iron grill structure was removed by hundreds of rampaging engineering students 10 days ago. Reliable sources in Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) said the iron grill structure would be replaced by stone fence.

“We are working on different ideas, including the stone walling around the Konark Horse.

It is primarily to bring an aesthetic look to the surface by focusing on alignment with central horse statue,” a top BDA functionary said here on Tuesday.

The BDA also plans to go for stone fencing the two gardens, which are being developed, close to the central rotary shaped traffic. However, the plans were not going to be materialised before two months, sources in BDA said.

When asked BDA Engineer Member G. C. Mangual said: “we are making an estimate of the project. We will soon be inviting tenders for this.

The completion of construction of the rotary shaped central structure would take at least two months.”

Fixing up of the iron grill would not have taken more than a fortnight, but BDA’s higher-ups reportedly wanted people to realise that it was easy to damage public property but difficult to create the same.

Flowerpots

Hundreds of engineering students from different colleges went berserk on September 8 demanding withdrawal of year-back-system by Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT). They had not even spared private cars parked along the roadside.

Meanwhile, Bhubaneswar Municipality Corporation (BMC) said it would start repairing the iron flowerpots along the median from Raj Mahal Square to Ram Mandir Square that were fixed just over a week before the vandalism.

“After the vandalism, we had assessed the damage. About 75 of 110 flowerpots were destroyed by students. Out of 75, again 32 can be repaired,” BMC Commissioner Aparajita Sarangi said.

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