The Hindu 24.12.2010
Road re-laying works begin
Staff Reporter
CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation on Thursday commenced re-laying work
on 387 km of 1,320 roads in the city. Inaugurating the work, Deputy
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said that the work will be completed in 100
days.
Many roads in the city are damaged due to rains this year, he said.
“So the State government has allocated Rs.60 crore under the Special Roads Programme 2010-2011,” he added.
Under the scheme, 146 of 266 bus route roads would be covered. The
details of the re-laying work would be available online in the
Corporation website – www.chennaicorporation.gov.in. The re-laying works
which were already finalised and stopped on account of rain have also
commenced, at a cost of Rs.37 crore.
A State quality monitoring team is monitoring the re-laying work in
the city. Mayor M.Subramanian and Chennai Corporation Commissioner
D.Karthikeyan accompanied Mr.Stalin.