Hyderabad: Contractors
and engineers who have been violating rules by digging up roads and not
restoring them will now have cases registered against them and
stringent action will be initiated, the GHMC Commissioner and the Mayor
have warned.

“Many contractors, though they dig up roads on time, fail to restore them. We have conducted many surprise inspections and now we are going to book them for such violations,” Mayor Majid Hussain said.

The comprehensive road development project, which has an estimated budget
of Rs 400 crore will focus on identifying and giving the city roads a
facelift. And one significant feature is the laying of concrete roads.

Meanwhile,
experts say that creating a common duct for all the cables is a
challenge and also laying of concrete roads will take longer and the
public will face inconvenience.

“We understand that this
will take a longer time, but for a long-term solution, a little
inconvenience has to be faced. This is better than thinking of
short-term repairs,” commissioner Somesh Kumar said.

Addressing a
press conference at the GHMC office, the Mayor and the commissioner said
that over 80 per cent of the complaints are received from the Town
Planning Wing. To solve this problem, an online system will be set up in
the next two months for speedy disposal of complaints.

The Mayor also informed that they are focusing on doubling the Rs 600 crore budget for roads to almost Rs 1,200 crore.

The Mayor also listed his own achievements for the year 2013.

“We were one of the first corporations to have been appreciated by the Union government for the integrated call
centre
system, e-grievance system and for the introduction of Prajavani. We
have disposed of 26 lakh birth and death certificates from 2000 to 2013
and more than 12 lakh were digitally made for people born between
1990-2000,” he said.