The municipal corporation on Thursday floated a tender inviting construction firms to build it a Rs 48.23-crore new office on more than 2.6 acres of land in Nawadih, 6km from its current address.

Operating from a rented three-storey building on Luby Circular Road for over three years, the corporation had become weary grappling with acute space crunch every day. The proposed six-storey building near Birsa Munda Park in Nawadih promises end all its woes.

The new address will be equipped with a bank, an ATM, a public utility centre, a board room, a dining hall, a lounge, separate offices for mayor, deputy mayor and other top officials, an engineering cell, and separate offices for various divisions such as water supply and national urban livelihood mission.

The groundbreaking ceremony for this extra spacious civic office was held on January 15, 2018, but some last-minute amendments suggested by the state urban development department delayed the detailed project report (DPR), which had to be revised before a tender could be floated.

According to the revised DPR, the ground floor of the new building will house the public utility centre, bank, ATM, parking lot and common area.

The first floor will comprise offices of mayor, his deputy, the legal wing and office management wing. The second floor will house the offices of municipal commissioner and additional municipal commissioner, the revenue section and PM Awas Yojana office.

The third floor will have the engineering division, the town planning division and AMRUT office. The fourth will house the NULM office, the water supply division, the sanitation wing and the establishment section.

The board room, lounge and dining hall will be on the fifth floor along with a common area.

Mayor Chandrashekhar Agarwal said the corporation office would also boast two annexes — a multi-storey one at Bank More and another in Hirapur, which will be rented out for commercial purposes and parking. “The Nawadih office is likely to be ready by June 2020,” he added.

The main civic office had incidentally been shifted from Bank More to Luby Circular Road in December 2015, as the former was “too congested” with an area of less than 3,000sqft. The old Bank More office at present houses the corporation’s engineering cell.

The current office in a Mineral Area Development Authority building on Luby Circular Road has a floor area of over 8,000sqft.