The Hindu 18.03.2010
Government gives nod for road-widening in Gulbarga
Special Correspondent
| Road map for demolishing buildings being prepared |
Emergency provisions under Land Acquisition Act, 1894, to be invoked to acquire land
Four main roads in Gulbarga city included
in the project
GULBARGA: The State Government has approved widening of four main roads in Gulbarga city by invoking the emergency provisions under Section 17(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, to acquire the required land for the project.
The roads to be widened are the ones between Jagat Circle and Humnabad Base, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Circle and M.S.K. Mill Road, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Circle and Aland Road checkpost, and Rashtrapati Chowk and Ram Mandir.
Karnataka Rakshana Vedike president Arunkumar Patil, who released a copy of the Government Order on Wednesday, told presspersons that the district administration and the Gulbarga City Corporation should initiate the project as soon as possible. “The road-widening has been inordinately delayed in the city, while it has already been taken up in Bidar, Raichur and other places,” he said. Deputy Commissioner R. Vishal, who was away in Bangalore on official work, was not available for comment.
Schedule
Sources, who did not want to be named, said that the officials concerned had begun the exercise of preparing a road map for demolishing buildings on the land required for the roadworks. The work is scheduled to begin in a week or two, the sources added.
Hailing the go-ahead for the work, Mr. Patil said it was the result of the long struggle of the vedike for taking up road-widening and city beautification projects.
In another victory for the vedike, the Central Railway authorities began the widening of the railunder-bridge on Old Jewargi Road on Tuesday. Mr. Patil, who performed the “bhoomi puja” on behalf of the railway authorities and the contractor, said that the widening would help ease the traffic jams on the road.
