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.