The Hindu 18.08.2012
Delhi to spend Rs.350 crore on roads taken over from MCD
The Delhi Government will spend Rs.350 crore in the next
couple of months to re-lay the roads which were taken over by it from
the Municipal Corporation of Delhi due to poor maintenance.
The
Public Works Department has decided to start tendering process for
relaying of over 400 km of road length at the earliest, say officials.
Unhappy over the MCD’s poor maintenance of roads, the Government had in
December last year decided to take over 499 streets with a total length
of 863 km from it.
“We will initially spend Rs.350
crore to re-lay the roads,” the officials said. The civic agency has
already handed over 645 km of roads to the Delhi Government out of the
863 km stretch.Officials said most of the roads will be re-layed and PWD will look after their maintenance. – PTI.