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63 road projects in city approved

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The Hindu      18.08.2014  

63 road projects in city approved

Kodical Road, Kadri Temple Road, Valencia Circle-Gorigudda Road and Morgan’s Gate Junction-Mahakalipadpu Road are some of the main roads that will be developed with the Chief Minister’s third stage Rs. 100-crore special grant to Mangalore City Corporation.

They were among the 63 road projects for which the council of the civic body gave administrative approval recently.

The 63 projects have been grouped under 19 packages. Each package has projects estimated at Rs. 1 crore. Hence, the council has given administrative approval for road projects worth Rs. 19 crore. Some of the other road projects approved include Ashok Nagar-Urwa Stores Road; Silver Gate Main Road at Kulashekara; Maroli Suryanarayana Temple to Angelore Church; Lower Car Street to Ansari Road; Badriya College Junction to Neereshwalya School Junction; Padil-Shivanagar Road; Vani Nagar to Bajal Padpu School Road; Jeppu Kudpady to Janardhana Bhajana Mandir Road; Faisal Nagar to Bajal; Mary Matha Church Road to Kana Road.

Chairman of the Standing Committee for Town Planning and Improvement D.K. Ashok Kumar said that the Kadri Temple Road would be concreted.

M. Shashidhar Hegde, former Mayor and councillor from Derebail North ward, said that the Kodical Road connecting the National Highway 66 from Urwa Stores via Kodical would be concreted.

In addition to Rs. 1 crore reserved from the third stage special grant, another Rs. 1 crore has been reserved for the same road under the second stage Rs. 100-crore grant, he said. According to B.T. Kantaraj, Deputy Commissioner (Development) and Superintending Engineer of the civic body, the corporation has sent different projects each estimated at over Rs. 1 crore to the government for approval under 21 packages. Project estimated up to Rs. 1 crore each could be approved at the corporation level here.

The government approved the action plan for a total of 168 projects to be taken up from the third stage Rs. 100-crore grant on March 1, 2014.

Kodical Road,

Kadri Temple Road among them

 

Four elevated roads in city

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The Hindu               18.02.2014

Four elevated roads in city

Elevated roads have been proposed to ease congestion on four busy roads of the city including J.C. Road.

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) budget 2014–15, presented on Monday, has announced the construction of an elevated steel bridge from Minerva Circle to Hudson Circle, a need long felt by motorists in south Bangalore commuting to the central business district.

The elevated steel bridge, along with an elevated road from Ejipura Cross on Outer Ring Road to Kendriya Sadan in Koramangala, have already been approved by the Union government under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

The BBMP has also proposed to take up construction of an elevated road from Sirsi Circle to BHEL Circle on Mysore Road in association with Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE), which is also implementing the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC). The entry to the BMIC has been proposed near BHEL circle.

The other elevated road project is to be taken up from Race Course Road to railway underbridge via Shivananda Circle. The above projects are expected to start soon.

 

Goodshed Road Widened by 20 Feet

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The New Indian Express            17.02.2014

Goodshed Road Widened by 20 Feet

Commuters using Goodshed Road near Majestic may now face fewer traffic jams as BBMP has provided a free left turn by acquiring a nearby 20-ft property and widening the road.

Mayor B S Sathyanarayana posted the photographs of demolition of the property and widening of the road on Saturday night on his Facebook page.

Terming this as one of the ‘great achievements of Katte Sathya’, he posted: “Goodshed Road is one of the major roads in Bangalore which used to face too much traffic congestion from many years. The actual operation started from last September 2013 (the day I was sworn in as the Mayor) after several meetings. Finally, we have demolished a part of the building last night which will give nearly 70 per cent free traffic flow from south to west and north of Bangalore.”

It took three months for BBMP to convince land owners Subbaiah Shetty and sons to part with the property for a public cause, sources said.

Superintending Engineer  K T Nagaraj told Express, “BBMP gave transfer of development rights (TDR) to the owners which is 1.5 times the value of the property. As per the (property) owner’s demand, we have also included a condition in the agreement that the TDR will be increased as and when it is revised by the BBMP.”

The width of the road has now been increased by 6 metres. Subbaiah Shetty and sons were the legal rights holders of this open land. It was leased out to another person who had sub-leased it. Now, a private hotel is being operated from the property.

“In order to increase the road length, illegal hoardings had to be removed from the area. BBMP officials took police to the site and got them removed. Though there were some objections from the hotel owner, the police ensured that BBMP gets its job done peacefully,” Nagaraj added.

BBMP officials said the civic body is also in the process of taking over a piece of land belonging to the same owners where seven sheds have been put up.

“Apart from TDR to the land owners, compensation will be provided to occupants who have put up makeshift homes on the land,” he said.

Sathyanarayana noted that traffic bottlenecks in Majestic area will ease because of this road widening. “Initially, the land owners were not willing to part with the property at all. But we persuaded them. We did this keeping public interest in mind,” he said.

 

GHMC on the move; road repairs to cost Rs.78 crore

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The Hindu             07.02.2014

GHMC on the move; road repairs to cost Rs.78 crore

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The GHMC Standing Committee, which met here on Thursday resolved to name the Kandikal Gate Road over Bridge (RoB) after Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, Uppuguda Road under Bridge (RuB) after Babu Jagjeevan Ram and the proposed flyover at Toli Chowki after former MIM chief Sultan Salahuddin.

For improving road conditions in the city, the committee gave nod for comprehensive road development works estimated at Rs.78 crore.

The meeting chaired by Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain also approved a proposal to carry out a survey of slums to collect details on population, self-help groups, drinking water sources and availability of community halls. For providing safe drinking water there, 80 reverse osmosis plants would be taken up in the first phase.

It was agreed to sanction 50 electric poles to each corporator and the officials were asked to start the process pending approval of the general body. Each ward would be also be allocated a vehicle for 10 days for lifting of debris at a cost of Rs.1.20 crore.

Under comprehensive road development project, approval was accorded for works at different places apart from works related to road-widening, junction improvements and strengthening and re-carpeting of some road stretches.

Payment of structural compensation to owners for properties affected under the road-widening at different places was cleared and approval was given for development and beautification of Mir Alam Tank Ring Bund and Malaka Cheruvu and developing a park at Kishanbagh.

The committee approved the proposal on providing Group Personal Accident Insurance Policy to outsourcing workers and the officials were also asked to put up the proposals for sanction of new sanitation workers in the next meeting.

 

Civic body turns off 47 street lamps to fix faults

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The Times of India           05.02.2014

Civic body turns off 47 street lamps to fix faults

VASHI: A month after six-year-old Babu Piraji Kale in Turbhe was electrocuted after he had touched a streetlight pole installed by the civic body, the report pertaining to his death is still awaited. But the civic administration is not willing to take any more chances.

The incident has prompted the department to issue strict directives to engineers, forbidding them from operating any streetlight poles that require maintenance and repairs.

The civic engineers said that 35 streetlight poles between Vashi and Turbhe and 12 poles between Belapur and Nerul have been switched off.

The engineers have cited reasons like rusting of electricity boxes attached to the pole, replacing the boxes to a certain height.

Even Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) has been asked to remove the wires dangling from the poles.

"Most of the streetlight poles have MSEDCL wires, which have to be removed at the earliest," said an engineer.

"The report of the unfortunate accident is expected to be released in a few days. But prior to that, specific guidelines have been given to engineers with regard to maintaining the streetlight poles. Engineers have been instructed against switching on the streetlight poles that may have even minor problems," said head of electrical department GV Rao.

 


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