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The Orissa High Court came down heavily on the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) and the Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Department over alleged procedural lapses in the vetting of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for the ambitious Rs 335.42 crore branch surface water channel (BSWC) drainage project in Cuttack.
In an order dated August 14, a two-judge bench of the High Court questioned why the DPRs for five major branch storm water drains were reviewed by Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, instead of IIT Bhubaneswar, despite a clear government directive issued on May 30 instructing CMC to get the hydraulic ...