Apart from Commissioner MT Krishna Babu, no Additional Commissioner accompanied the Mayor. Chief engineer Panduranga Rao and South Zone commissioner Subramanyam accompanied her only for a brief period and left midway, causing embarrassment to the city’s first citizen.

Deputy Mayor Jaffer Hussain was also on the tour.

Observing the slow pace of construction of a bridge on the Musi near the Race Course connecting the northern and southern banks (Golnaka to Race Course), Karthika Reddy asked the contractor to speed up the works. The bridge is to be completed and thrown open to traffic by August 26, 2010. The work, costing about Rs 5.02 crore, is being executed by JSR Constructions Pvt Ltd.

The bridge will be 219 metres long and 12 metres wide. The bridge will connect Golnaka at Zinda Tilismath Road to Old Malakpet at the proposed 80-feet road and provide the shortest route from Golnaka and Amberpet to Malakpet. Besides, it will help in relieving the traffic congestion on the Chaderghat bridge, Moosarambagh Road and corresponding stretches on the Warangal highway and National Highway-9.

From there, the mayor visited Saraswati Nagar, IS Sadan and inspected the sewerage works. Saidabad corporator Singireddy Srinivas Reddy complained to her that the HMWS&SB was to lay pipelines in all of Chandrayangutta, Malakpet and Yakutpura but concentrated only on localities where HMWS&SB and GHMC officials reside. He wanted the pipelines to be laid in consultation with local corporators and MLAs. The Mayor assured him that she would hold a meeting with HMWS&SB officials in this regard.

Karthik Reddy also inspected a community hall at Teen Mahal temple in Saidabad and received complaints from locals about civic problems.