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BMC to float tenders worth Rs 937 crore to spruce up roads in the western suburbs

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The Times of India            04.02.2014

BMC to float tenders worth Rs 937 crore to spruce up roads in the western suburbs

MUMBAI: With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, a proposal to spruce up roads in western suburbs worth Rs 937 crore will soon come up for approval before the civic standing committee. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will undertake concretisation and asphalting of 152 roads in western suburbs.

"Roads in western suburbs from Santacruz to Dahisar will be resurfaced as they have been damaged due to high amount of traffic, wear and tear, digging by utilities and leakages from water mains. While doing this, the upgradation of storm water drains, sewage lines will also be undertaken," said a senior official from the roads department.

Under this project, 37 roads will be concretised, the contract of which has been allotted to the consortium of Ms J Kumar Infraprojects - Ms KR Constructions at the cost of Rs 463.34 crore.

The defect liability period for the concretisation of these roads and side strips will be 10 and five years respectively. The contractor will also have to fill the trenches dug by the utility companies, the cost of which will be met from the deposits collected by the companies.

Total 115 roads will be asphalted at the cost of Rs 475 crore. Of them, 33 traffic junctions will be upgraded with mastic asphalt, while 82 other roads will be repaired with asphalt. The contract of these works has been allotted to Ms KR Constructions and the consortium of Ms RPS Infraprojects - Ms Relcon Infraprojects (joint partners).

The defect liability period for the mastic asphalt roads and asphalt roads will be 10 and five years respectively.

However, corporators have alleged that due to delay in issuing tenders, these road works will not be completed before monsoon causing inconvenience to people. Congress corporator Pravin Chheda said, "The tenders should have been issued three-four months back in order to complete them before the start of monsoon. It means most of these works would start after the end of monsoon this year."

While road works in city and western suburbs have been undertaken on priority basis, eastern suburbs continued to be neglected by the civic administration and ruling alliance, he added.

 

Rs 70 Crore Sanctioned for Road Repairs

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The New Indian Express             03.02.2014 

Rs 70 Crore Sanctioned for Road Repairs

As many as 325 works under corporators’ budget (`50 lakh each) for road repairs in their respective divisions, costing total `69.83 crore, have been sanctioned, along with another 297 desiltation works in 24 engineering divisions at a cost of `21.18 crore, and tenders have been invited for all the works, GHMC mayor M Majid Hussain has said.

Meanwhile, tenders have been finalised for 24 works taken up under phase-1 of BT road repairs at a cost of `11.85 crore and tenders have been called for six more works costing `2.56 crore, he said.

Under the Comprehensive Road Development Plan (CRDP), as many as 67 works had been sanctioned at a cost of `314.71 crore, which are at different stages of completion.

The GHMC has sanctioned 13 Multi-Skill Development Centers (MSDC) and planning to construct total 70 km  length of compound walls for 385 open spaces at a cost of `49 crore, he said.

GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar said the corporation is developing a database of all the properties of GHMC in order to make it public.

 

‘20 of 216 roads widened’

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The Hindu             30.01.2014

‘20 of 216 roads widened’

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There was a plan to widen 216 roads in the core areas of the city. But only 20 were widened in the last seven years and property owners in the remaining ones are in limbo, said former opposition leader in the BBMP M.K. Gunashekar. “Over three lakh honest taxpayers are facing great inconvenience on account of this,” he said.

 

Panvel Municipal Council's Rs 188 crore proposal for road laying works

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The Times of India          29.01.2014

Panvel Municipal Council's Rs 188 crore proposal for road laying works

PANVEL: The old Panvel township, with its dusty and broken roads, poses a nightmare for over one lakh residents. However, the local civic body hopes to solve the daily menace by submitting a proposal of Rs 188 crore to the state government with funds made available to it under the 'Nagarutthan scheme' that will include laying of roads and other amenities.

Chief officer of Panvel Municipal Council (PMC), Sudhakar Jagtap told TOI that the general body has passed the detailed project report (DPR) and it has been forwarded to the urban development department of the state government. The funds made available are under 50:50 cost sharing basis and the civic body is hopeful of at least half the project amount being sanctioned by the state government.

The DPR includes roads, parking, street furniture and the pavements. The civic body, as of now, has decided to take up the laying of roads on a priority basis"We are hopeful that at least the proposal of cemented stretch of roads will get the nod," said a civic official. In case the proposal for bitumen roads is not sanctioned, the Panvel civic body has decided to forward the same to the central government under urban infrastructure development scheme for small and medium towns (UIDSSMT). The scheme is equivalent of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme for small and medium towns as in the case of Panvel.

Panvel roadmap

Rs 188 crore: Proposed cost of the roads

Rs 90 crore (concrete roads); Rs 98 crore (bitumen roads)

Concrete roads: 14 km - length; 12 m or more - width

Bitumen roads: 35 km - length; 12 m or less - width

 

Rs. 25 crore for road repairs

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The Hindu              24.01.2014

Rs. 25 crore for road repairs

More two-wheelers are meeting with accidents in the city due to the innumerable potholes, the DC said.— File Photo
More two-wheelers are meeting with accidents in the city due to the innumerable potholes, the DC said.— File Photo

Deputy Commissioner of Davangere district S.T. Anjan Kumar said that one of the prominent reasons for road accidents in Davangere city was bad roads and the district administration had already initiated steps to repair the roads at a cost of Rs. 25 crore.

Inaugurating the ‘road safety week’ organised jointly by the police and the Regional Transport Office here today Mr. Anjan Kumar said that since the roads were in bad shape, people were unable to strictly abide by the traffic rules. He noted that incidents of two-wheelers meeting with accidents were on an increase in the city because of the innumerable potholes. Hence the district administration has resolved to give a facelift to the roads in the city.

Similarly, an amount of Rs.11 crore had been earmarked for repairing the Pune-Bangalore highway passing in the city, the DC said, adding that construction of a ring road upto Bada cross would be completed soon. Once the ring road is completed, movement of heavy vehicles such as trucks in the city could be avoided, he said. He also disclosed that a truck terminal would be constructed on the outskirts of the city to prevent trucks coming into the city particularly during the day. Different public works including construction of truck terminal would soon be taken up at a total cost of Rs. 65 crore, he said.

Besides bad roads, there was a lack of traffic sense among many people, the DC said, and called upon the police and RTO officials to educate people about traffic rules. The DC said there were more than three lakh vehicles in Davangere city and of it more than 60 per cent were two wheelers.

The Davangere City Corporation had bought certain equipments to discipline the vehicular movement in the city and people would be educated about the equipments before installation.

 


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