BBMP to outsource work on documenting road history

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The Hindu          26.12.2014 

BBMP to outsource work on documenting road history

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is now set to outsource the job of updating data about road history.

For three years now, BBMP has been trying to prepare ‘road history’ a document that will bring in accountability and transparency. However, it is yet to make any real headway in completing the job, which is based on geographical information system (GIS).

BBMP Commissioner M. Lakshminarayana conceded that there is a delay in completing road history, which could become a mother document, based on which all works could be sanctioned. Though roads have been mapped, the details such as when a particular road was last asphalted, number of electricity poles, telephone lines, OFCs, manholes etc are yet to be updated.

“This job will be outsourced,” said Mr. Lakshminarayana.

He said that earlier, BBMP’s engineers had to physically verify and then update road history, which was time-consuming. “Now, there will be a format based on which road history will have to be updated,” he said and added that the civic body had already linked payment of bills to road history. “Henceforth, all work-related bills will be generated online and will be cleared only after the details about the road are updated. This will eliminate duplication of work and double billing.”

Kadu Malleswara councillor Manjunath Raju said road history is 95 per cent complete for the seven wards in Malleswaram Assembly constituency. “We have taken it further and mapped manholes of BWSSB as well.”

He said the GIS-based system could be used by other civic agencies, including Bescom, to map their utilities. “This will prevent misuse of public funds,” he added.

‘Henceforth, all work-related bills will be generated online and will be cleared only after the details about the road are updated’