The Hindu 16.08.2012
‘Ambitious plans under JNNURM Plus’
: Ambitious plans for city transport, improvement of
drinking water supply by laying a pipeline from Yeleru canal and
Raiwada, sewerage network for Gajuwaka and Malkapuram, and tourism
comprised the proposals under JNNURM Plus, Special Officer of GVMC and
District Collector Lav Agarwal said on Wednesday.
In
his address after unfurling the tricolour at the GVMC, he said many of
the 20 projects taken up under JNNURM were completed and of the
remaining 80 per cent completed qualifying GVMC for the next phase.
Mr.
Lav Agarwal said the work on the Asilmetta flyover and BRTS corridors
was going on in full swing and once bus shelters and foot over-bridges
were constructed it would be thrown open. Beneficiaries of the JNNURM
housing would soon be moved to the 15,320 houses constructed at various
places.
An action plan ounder slum improvement
programme Rajiv Awas Yojana was proposed 117 slums in the first phase.
The ‘Vidyasri’ and ‘Sweekaram’ programmes of GVMC were extending
assistance to merit students lacking resources. On the moves to combat
pollution, he said 40 lakh saplings were proposed to be planted.
Chief
Engineer B. Jayarami Reddy and Additional Commissioners S. Krishna
Murthy, P. Poornachandra Rao and K. Ramesh participated.