The GHMC has completed about 60 percent of road repair works after the roads got damaged due to heavy rains for the last two weeks, GHMC Commissioner MT Krishna Babu has said.

Addressing the media after Prajavani programme, he said the GHMC is taking up drainage improvement works at 153 stagnation points identified. As per standard practice, storm water drains should be constructed before laying any road, but it is not happening, he said. The GHMC is ready to take up comprehensive road improvement works with its own funds if the HMWS&SB officials submit their proposals in this regard.

The GHMC has constructed 56,000 houses under JNNURM housing scheme, the commissioner said. The GHMC is constructing two types of housing colonies--in situ, wherever a colony is already existing, and on vacant lands identified by the district collector concerned.

The corporation is facing financial problems because of non- payment of 30 percent of beneficiary contribution after constructing the houses with GHMC funds, he said. The GHMC will be sorting out this issue with the collectors, he added.