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City road works to be speeded up

Monday, 07 October 2013 07:50 administrator
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The New Indian Express           07.10.2013

City road works to be speeded up

All zonal commissioners of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) have been asked to complete patch works and pothole -filling on main roads by October 14, said GHMC mayor, M Majid Hussain.

The mayor, along with deputy mayor G Raj Kumar and all GHMC floor leaders, zonal commissioners and additional commissioner (health & sanitation), held a review meeting relating to arrangements for upcoming festivals like Dasara, Deepavali and Eid-al-Adha (Bakrid). He directed officials to take up all measures that were taken up in previous years.

He also directed zonal commissioners to ensure cleanliness at Idgahs where public gatherings are expected to be large. He directed the additional commissioner (health & sanitation), L Vandan Kumar, to increase the number of vehicles deployed to remove animal waste and garbage on the occasion of Bakrid.

GHMC will conduct a special drive of debris removal before Dasara. Officials have been asked to furnish the list of vehicles and their schedules to corporators for supervision and better coordination. He asked them to arrange for special lightings at places of public gathering during Dasara and to construct temporary ponds, wherever required, for playing Bathukamma. He instructed the zonal commissioners to arrange for clearing spaces in graveyards and ensure proper lighting there.

 

Now, Saturday deadline to fill potholes: BBMP

Tuesday, 01 October 2013 09:17 administrator
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The New Indian Express            01.10.2013  

Now, Saturday deadline to fill potholes: BBMP

With the first deadline to cover potholes  on city roads coming to an end on Monday, the BBMP  has now come up with a new deadline: October 5.

The civic body was supposed to fill all potholes in all 198 wards by September 30. The additional commissioner (Administration) had issued orders to ward-level engineers on September 25 to cover all the potholes. 

BBMP Standing Committee chairman of Ward-level Works (Public Works) A H Basavaraju said the work has been taken up at each ward at a cost of `5 lakh. It is going on in full swing, he added.

“We still missed the deadline. Now, we have set a new deadline and all the chief engineers at zonal level have been directed to monitor and file daily reports on the drive. The officials will be held responsible for not completing the drive. If the works are not completed by the new deadline, I will write to the BBMP Commissioner to take action against the officials,” Basavaraju stated.

On Monday, BBMP engineers filled 863 potholes in Bommanahalli Zone, 210 in East Zone and 60 in Yelahanka Zone. Basavarju said reports are awaited as far as other zones are concerned.

Mayor B S Sathyanarayana, on the other hand, is hopeful of meeting the deadline this time.

“Five days’ deadline is a tough task in the entire BBMP limits. The reports that have come, so far, state that the engineers concerned have put in great efforts and have covered more roads. The work is still going on and we will fix potholes on 300 km of major roads in the city,” he said.

Superintendent engineer (Major Roads) K T Nagaraj said they faced problems in covering 300 km of roads due to traffic movement. “The work has to be taken up only at night and sometimes, labourers don’t turn up. We still managed to cover 1,43, 790 square metres. The biggest work was carried out between Rajajinagar Entrance and Khoday Circle, measuring 8,659 sq m, in West Zone. This was followed by 6,050 sq m at K H Road and 3,600 sq m, covering Wilson Garden 10th Cross, 12th Cross and police station, in South Zone. In East Zone, there was a stretch of 5,600 sq m from Old Airport Road to Suranjandas Road and Trinity Circle. The pothole filling and road works are ongoing processes,” Nagaraj said.

According to the BBMP technical team’s report compiled on September 18, the Palike had filled 27,740 potholes and remaining 11,614 still had to be filled. In Rajarajeshwarinagar Zone itself, 3,669 potholes and 3,597 potholes located in South Zone are yet to be covered.

 

Roads at 19 major junctions to be given a concrete facelift in 4 months

Tuesday, 01 October 2013 09:12 administrator
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The Times of India            01.10.2013 

Roads at 19 major junctions to be given a concrete facelift in 4 months

NAVI MUMBAI: Top civic sources have said that after the Bombay high court's directive to repair bad roads, 19 major city junctions are set to be concretized within four months. A budget of Rs35 crore has been allocated for the project.

After facing severe criticism from the HC and its citizens for bad roads, the civic body has initiated its concretization plan where several pock-marked roads, made primarily of asphalt, will be relaid.

The meantime, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has submitted a list of 19 major traffic junctions to the HC and will start the project after the monsoon. A proposal of Rs35 crore will also be tabled at the next general body meeting of NMMC for final approval. "WIn accordance with our commitment given to the high court we are pushing this project forward to get budgetary nod from the general assembly that will enable us to start work. Resurfacing of pothole-riddled asphalt roads was undertaken during the festival and now concretization of 19 junctions will be done in a period of four months between December and March next," said civic chief Abasaheb Jarhad.

The chowks on the list are Mahakali chowk, K Star chowk, Sakal Bhavan, Raheja Corner, Govardhani chowk (Belapur), L P Junction, Master Naresh Chowk, Gaodevi, Jhama Sweets, Dharamveer Sambhaji chowk (Nerul), Palm Beach chowk, Arenja corner, Mahatma Phule chowk, Agrawal chowk, Abhudaya Bank chowk (Vashi), D-Mart Circle at Koparkhairane, the T-junction, Khedekar chowk and Yash Paradise chowk. Navi Mumbai: If civic sources are to be believed all major traffic junctions in the city may soon get a facelift with cement concrete surface, replacing pothole-prone asphalt tracks. Following High Court's directive to provide good roads while doing away with back-breaking patches, civic body has committed to respect it thus taking up concretization work. As many as 19 key chowks which are crowded with increasing vehicular movement have been earmarked to get a makeover with concretization.

 
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