Cyclone Affected Parks in Bhubaneswar Getting Ready: BDA

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Bhubaneswar: Major parks in the city which were severely affected in the cyclone Fani have started attracting people with clearance of green debris. However several other small parks in the city are yet to be fully restored.

Officials in the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) said that they have deployed 10 JCBs and more than 200 workers  to revive the major parks across the city.

BDA’s 10 major parks with over 5 acres land each include Biju Patnaik Park, Indira Gandhi Park, Buddha Jayanti Park, Mahatma Gandhi Park, Kelucharan Mohapatra Park, Kharvel Park, Madhusudan Das Park, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Park and K8 Kalinga Nagar Park and Shyama Prasad Mukharjee Park.

“The walking and jogging tracks, open air gymnasiums, kids’ play areas and the lawns are now free from the green debris and fallen trees,” said a BDA official.

The state capital has as many as 120 parks across the city. While BDA has 57 parks, the rest 63 belongs to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation.

Biju Patnaik park the most sought after destination for morning walkers has been severely affected in the cyclone. BDA officials said that more than 200 trips of tractor loads of green waste has been lifted from the park. BDA officials said that depsite deploying hundreds of people for cleaning of the parks it may take days to clear the debris.

Officials also said that the extra load of green waste from the road city parks have put an extra load on the temporary transit station (TTS) near Sainik School. “ The TTS is operating round the clock to facilitate collections and transportation of the green waste to the designated dumping ground near Bhuasuni, on the city outskirts,” added the official.

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