The Hindu 26.06.2013
13,000 potholes to be filled in 10 days
Did you know that the total number of potholes on the prominent roads in Bangalore had touched about 33,000 recently?
Disclosing
this to presspersons, Bangalore city in-charge Minister Ramalinga Reddy
said on Tuesday that of the 33,000 potholes, the Bruhat Bangalore
Mahanagara Palike had so far filled up about 20,000. “The BBMP
Commissioner has told me that the remaining 13,000 potholes will be
filled up in seven to 10 days from now,” said the Minister who held a
meeting with heads of all the civic agencies in Bangalore to bring about
better co-ordination in their functioning.
Mr. Reddy
said the BBMP authorities had been directed to forward the proposal
regarding recruiting 4,000 pourakarmikas to the Urban Development
Department for further action.
Expressing concern
over the civic works getting affected due to the trend of the BBMP
taking up transfer of its employees throughout the year, the Minister
said he had set a deadline of June-end for completing the process of
staff transfer for the civic agency. Only emergency transfers would be
allowed after this, he said.
The Bangalore Urban
District Deputy Commissioner had been instructed to provide Rs. 10 crore
to the BBMP towards taking up relief works, he said.
Expressing
concern over paucity of funds affecting the maintenance of its flyovers
by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), Mr. Reddy favoured
handing over them to the BBMP for better maintenance.
Similarly,
the BDA had been told to handover some of its tanks to Bangalore Metro
Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL). However, he did not specify the exact
number of tanks to be handed over to the BMRCL.