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