A new zone specific map for the wards under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will be created and officers will be allotted accordingly to these zones to increase the productivity of the corporation with the existing staff.
Senior BMC officials decided on Monday to create a new map that would group the nearby wards together and create specific zones. “At times, if a sanitation officer is in charge of supervising sanitation work in Pokhariput, then the same officer is also given charge of supervising work in Rasulgarh.
Managing the two corners of the city at the same time becomes difficult and, therefore, we are trying to tackle this problem,” said Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena.
Appointment of officers based on the map will ensure that the officer in charge of sanitation is available in the wards allotted to him without wasting time on travel. “Considering Bhubaneswar’s traffic condition, these days 30 minutes is the usual time to travel between any two points in the city. The new map and new allotments should solve that problem,” explained Jena.
According BMC officials, the new zone map will be ready in the next five days. It has also been decided that the BMC officials along with the corporators will start making rounds of the wards and address the grievances of the people directly. “The commissioner, corporators and local political leaders along with me will make the rounds on a two-wheeler. We have already started it in wards 34, 25 and 26,” said Jena.
The purpose is to look into the problems in every ward and also coordinate among the different departments to get the work done. “People do not know that the major drains fall under the drainage department, the sewerage work falls under the sewerage department and major roads under the works department.
We will hear out their problems and coordinate with the other departments to get the work done,” said corporator Amaresh Jena. The problems that cannot be solved by the BMC would be referred to the departments concerned.