Unique move by RMC to Establish Science Park & Planetarium at Rourkela

Rajesh Mohapatra,Odishabarta

ROURKELA: Rourkela, the Smart city and is considered as the education capital of Odisha is now going to have a national level Science Parke & Planetarium in Chhend on 8acre of land which  is proposed. The site of this project was visited by Dibyajyoti Parida, Commissioner, RMC.

The estimated project cost is around Rs.25crore which will be built in a joint venture between Rourkela Smart City Ltd and Science & Technology, Department of Govt. of Odisha. In this gigantic project there will be Evolution Park, Cafeteria, Open Theater, Synthetic turf stadium, Pathway and Swimming pool. All these facilities will be encouraged the young students of Rourkela and many areas of Sundergarh. We have one planetarium at Bhubaneswar and it is too far from Rourkela to visit the place whosoever wants.

Rourkela and its periphery areas are dominated by tribal people; hence, the children of tribal and other communities will be having an opportunity to have a state of art planetarium which will be of national standard. A great learning will be there; hence, this move is appreciated by the people of this district. Hon’ble Naveen Patanaik, CM of Odisha is dreaming big for Sundergarh district as it is known from his declaration to have a Hockey Stadium of International standard to set up in the name of  Birsa Munda, the great freedom fighter in BPUT,Chhend. This stadium will be having capacity of more than 20000 viewers and for the cause the project work has already begun.

The most exciting part is both these projects will be coming up in few years time in Chhend area, which is considered as one of the largest colonies in India. As a Smart City the projects undertaken by the RMC under Smart City Ltd is encouraging and expected many more infrastructure to come in future time.