It is indeed heartwarming to see the kind of responses that the story generated.One should mention that,to start with, getting a consensus on the need for a new capital city or even for a new satellite city was not easy.Deciding on the actual location was the next big issue.And then to get the land !With a powerful land mafia and sundry gold diggers creatingall kinds of hurdles !The people of Raipur and the much maligned politicians need to be complemented for finally putting behind them all real and imagined controversies and supporting Naya Raipur.Some compromises including settling for an innocuose name like Naya Raipur could probably be not helped but the city will become the pride of Chhattisgarh in a few years.There are no doubt other issues to address. Like how to give a distinct identity to the new city, how to take care of environmental problems,how to ensure that we can make it aesthetic and at the same time inclusive(housing for the poor especially the migrant labour needs to be addressed)and many others.Readers may like to convey some of their concerns and suggestions to pjoyoommen@gmail.com P.Joy Oommen,Chairman Naya Raipur Development Authority, Raipur.
