Nagpur Municipal Corporation has planned to construct low-cost homes under PMAY on Orange City Project

As the construction of Metro Mall at the Orange City Street has begun, the Nagpur civic body has decided to start the construction of a hospital near Khamla and residential homes between Jaitala T-point and Yashoda Nagar as a part of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) under Orange City Project.

City MP and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in a meeting held last week directed the Nagpur Municipal Corporation to keep housing schemes under the central govt’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana to encourage home buying affordable for the Middle Income Group (MIG) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS).

The proposed hospital buildings will come up in two buildings, of which one building would be a multi-speciality hospital and another one include OPD, radiology, pathology centres, and medicines.

The Nagpur Municipal Corporation following MahaMetro has started construction works for Metro Mall adjacent to Jaiprakash Nagar Metro Station at Radisson Blu Square. The basement work has completed and concrete work will start soon.

Orange City Street is also known as London Street project is being developed by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra. The project includes 10 different expenses allocated for residential, commercial, IT Park, green zone, vegetable market, and medical zone. The remaining zones in the project are cultural, retail market, recreational, parks, parking etc.

It is being developed on 5.50 km on both sides of Wardha road- Somalwada-Khamla-Bhamti-Parsodi-Takli-Jaitala T-Point road stretch. The project will span across 75.34 acres of land. The total built-up area under the project is 10,75,984.40 sq mt. It will spread over a total of 21 plots and comprise 60 residential and 13 commercial buildings at the cost of 5,700 crores which was planned in the year 2007. This project received a negative response on Build-Operate-Transfer (BoT) model. Now, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation has come forward and taken the execution work in a phased manner. The civic body will sell the properties and recover the cost.

The civic body has made special building bylaws for the project to make it feasible and affordable for the Middle Income Group and Economically Weaker Section.

As per Abhijit Bangar, Municipal Commissioner of Nagpur, they are planning to begin construction works on five shopping malls at Cotton Market, Sokta Bhavan, Sakkardara, Netaji Market, and Budhwar Bazar within 6-months time period. They will soon start the tender process for Sokta Bhavan, Sakkardara and Budhwar Bazaar Complex.

For making the Orange City Street Scheme a success, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has come up with many initiatives including floating floor space index (FSI), special building regulation and use of all buildings for various purposes.

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