GHMC standing committee members and floor leaders expressed their
dissatisfaction with regard to road maintenance works and poor
functioning of the engineers working for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation (GHMC).

GHMC mayor, M Majid Hussain along with GHMC
commissioner, MT Krishna Babu, held a review meeting on various civic
related issues with standing committee members, floor leaders and
additional commissioners.

The members informed that the
resolutions of the standing committee and the general body are not being
implemented by the engineers right below from the lower staff.

Responding
to remarks made by the standing committee members and floor leaders,
the commissioner said that since the last two and half years, it was
observed that no memo has been issued for any engineer for dereliction
of duties and asked the engineer-in-chief to look  into the matter.

He
further stated that specific instructions have been given to
superintendent engineers to take up regular review meetings every month,
but none of them followed the instructions.

Responding to the
request of standing committee members and floor leaders regarding the
laying of permanent roads, the commissioner said that a stretch-wise
study of lapses will be taken up by appointing a consultant and based on
the report, the laying of permanent roads will be taken up.

Floor leaders pointed out that a file currently takes 25 days to reach the superintendent engineer from the executive engineer .

The
ultimate solution for this would be fixing up of responsibility on the
concerned executive engineers, who are supposed to follow the tasks from
the day of sanction.