Bhubaneswar: The Housing & Urban Development department inaugurated a state-level Water Quality Assurance Cell (WQAC) here on Tuesday. G Mathi Vathanan, additional chief secretary, marked the event by emphasising the cell’s role in enhancing water quality monitoring and surveillance across the state’s cities. Er. Sisir Kumar Ratho (Retd. IFS), former principal chief conservator of forests…
Bhubaneswar: The experts have rated Odisha’s septage infrastrucure as one of the best in the country, at a regional workshop held at Odisha Urban Academy here on Saturday. The workshop organised by Housing & Urban Development department Odisha in collaboration with Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi was on reuse of bio-solids harvested…
Bhubaneswar: The Housing & Urban Development department has issued SOP regarding preparation of action plan for management of flood and waterlogging in urban areas during the ensuing monsoon. Like previous years, ULBs have been directed to take up joint verification with respective Drainage Division/MI Division of Water Resources department to ensure desilting and repair of…
Bhubaneswar: Solid Waste Management (SWM) is one of the most important activities of an ULB, considering this the principal secretary Housing & Urban Development department G Mathi Vathanan has envisaged some activities under community based monitoring for better service delivery. A set of activities have been proposed which aims at empowerment of community and community…
The Housing & Urban Development department started its cluster wise performance review meeting for the ULBs with a focus to trigger completion of the key projects under the key urban agenda and to enhance community partnership while executing various urban initiatives. As many as 23 Urban Local Bodies from three districts such as Ganjam, Gajapati…
Odisha’s MUKTA (Mukhyamantri Karma Tatpara Abhiyan) has been selected as one of the top five finalists for the 2021-22 WRI Ross Centre Prize for Cities at the 11th World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland. The Prize recognises MUKTA’s swift action to create mass employment and infrastructure during the Covid-19 pandemic. MUKTA has been selected from…
