Green signal to Rs49.4cr OBC boys’ hostel project in Nagpur

Nagpur: A five-storey hostel complex with a capacity of 500 students, residential staff quarters, lifts, CCTV surveillance, firefighting systems and a 500 KLD sewage treatment plant will soon come up in the city after the state govt sanctioned Rs49.45 crore for an OBC boys' hostel.The approval covers construction of the 500-seat hostel and staff quarters within the campus of the govt Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Indora. The Public Works Department (PWD) has been designated as the executing agency, while architectural planning will be undertaken by a private architect.
The sanction was cleared at a committee meeting held on February 13, with the state approving the estimated project cost subject to technical and procedural conditions. The Superintending Engineer and Chief Engineer of the PWD's regional division in Nagpur have been directed to scrutinise and authenticate the project's recapitulation sheet.According to the approved estimates in the GR dated February 20, the main hostel building will comprise a ground floor and four upper floors. Each floor will have a built-up area of 1,521.71 sqm, taking the total hostel built-up area to 9,130.26 sqm. Residential quarters for staff will include a ground floor of 270.41 sqm and a first floor of 265.20 sqm, with a combined area of 535.61 sqm. The total built-up area of the project will be 9,665.87 sqm.Of the total outlay, Rs27.06 crore has been earmarked for core civil construction of the hostel and quarters. Electrification works — including internal and external installations, firefighting systems, CCTV, pump house and borewell, lifts and area lighting — are estimated at Rs4.50 crore, while water supply and sanitary works will cost Rs1.35 crore. Furniture provision alone has been pegged at Rs3.19 crore.