BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation ended the year on a fairly balanced note, with a good number of achievements. It was a chequered year for the BMC. Its major achievement was the Best Municipal Corporation award by the State Government for third time in a row. The Cupertino-Bhubaneswar sister city tie-up also took place this year which has opened up avenues for culture and knowledge exchange between the two cities.This year the BMC also received the Sasakawa Award for disaster management from the United Nations. The award is provided to cities that have managed to reduce risks from disasters and is one of the five other civic bodies in the world to be presented the award.The vending zone concept, unique to the city, faced trouble due to the road expansion work. With the road expansion work, many of the vendors lost their livelihood. Numerous stalls were demolished and they are yet to be provided the land. Major projects the corporation started this year were the waste treatment plant and the Bindu Sagar lake renovation work. With the city bus services getting an additional ` 6 crore to add more buses to its fleet, the services will see a huge upgradation. Major infrastructure developments like road improvements at VSS Nagar and Nayapalli, construction of drains and roads at Baramunda were also carried out. Around Rs 50 lakh was spent on construction of roads at Dumduma Housing Board Colony. An amount of Rs 55 lakh was spent on providing LED light from Rammandir to Master Canteen. A high-level RCC bridge was constructed over Iginia Nala to connect Iginia and Kolathia with the project expenditure being around Rs 42 lakh. BMC itself saw the construction of a new grievance cell and a booking counter inside its premises at a cost of Rs 23.41 lakh. Major eviction drives were also conducted by the BMC to clear illegal structures. Numerous Opolfed and Omfed booths were demolished as they did not comply with BMC rules. BMC has received around 1,764 complaints from 60 wards till December 29 this year. Of them, around 1,557 have been disposed of by the corporation. The major complaints received were for street-lighting, garbage disposal, mosquito menace and drain cleaning.One of the sections that needed attention was the repair of minor roads. Out of the 39 complaints received, seven complaints are yet to solved.
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