Puri to become Municipal Corporation soon

Puri: In a major announcement by Chief Minister Mohan Majhi, Puri is all set to become Puri Municipal Corporation soon. Urbanization shall be done of the nearby villages.

According to reports, in order to provide quality facilities to the devotees and tourists who come to the city throughout the year with the increasing population, the government has decided to convert Puri Municipality into a Municipal Corporation.

The PMC will be formed by incorporating Puri city and the surrounding village panchayats. This will include about seven to eight village panchayats of Puri Sadar and Brahmagiri block, so that the residents of these panchayats can get city-like facilities. All the processes related to this will be started from tomorrow.

The government is committed to making Puri the best religious and tourist destination in the country. For this, there is a need to develop and maintain many new projects. The government has set a target to make Puri a major religious and tourist destination of the country by 2036. “The idea of ​​a prosperous Odisha is impossible without a beautiful, green, developed Puri city,” the CM added in the press brief.

The CM said that the preparations for the Bahuda yatra of Lord Jagannath has been completed and that security of Puri has been enhanced to accommodate the huge number of devotees who are expected in the city.