Modern bus terminal to be constructed in Puri
Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, Modern Bus Stands, Puri, Puri, Roads, highways and Bus stands November 11th. 2007, 10:21amFollowing is an excerpt on this from the Pioneer.
The Jagannath Temple administration would develop a new state-of-the-art passenger bus terminal at an estimated cost of over Rs 100 crore on 42 acre of its own land located near the Samagara village on the outskirts of the town, said SC Mahapatra, the temple’s chief administrator at a Press meet on Thursday. Within six months the temporary bus stand operating at Talabania would be shifted to the new place. Primary infrastructure like fencing, provisions of basic amenities and security arrangements would be put on place before the scheduled shifting, Mahapatra said. A pilgrim shelter for 500 pilgrims would be constructed in the complex equipped with eateries and shopping centres. Two crore would be spent now for the purpose, said Mahapatra. Besides Rs 35 crore would be spent for the development of the existing parking place functioning at Jagannath Ballav alongside the Badadanda (Grand Road). NTPC would bear the cost of the development, he said. Among other things the temple plans to include resumption of temple kitchen and Ananda Bazaar (Mahaprasad selling and dinning place in the temple complex) reconstruction work after the Kartik Brata and installation of a donation collection box at the premises of Jaydev Bhavan in Bhubaneswar.