The Hindu 18.08.2014
Corporation begins restoring roads dug for laying UGD pipelines
‘Civic body has obtained funds from Govt. to re-lay roads’
In the next couple of weeks, the Coimbatore Corporation will be busy restoring those roads that were dug for laying the underground drainage (UGD) pipelines. The work will happen on a priority basis, as the objective is to restore the roads before the next spell of rain, says Commissioner G. Latha.
The work to restore the roads started about a couple of days ago. The roads measuring more than 20 km are spread over five wards in the North Zone and 12 wards in the East Zone.
The work involves filling earth over the pipelines to pack the trench-like dug portions and then packing them with cement and concrete and then levelling the place so that road users have a more-or-less flat surface to drive on.
The Corporation has thus far dug 190 km roads. Of those, roads measuring 153 km were bitumen-topped ones. The Corporation has restored 131 km of those bitumen-topped roads.
More than 40 km roads were earthen roads, which the Corporation has restored using earth and gravel.
Ms. Latha says that the contractors, who undertook the UGD pipeline laying work, are busy restoring the roads. Three engineers in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission wing are supervising the work.
Once the restoration work is complete, the Corporation will then go for laying the roads, for which the civic body has already floated tenders.
Ms. Latha says that restoring the roads to motorable condition is a contractual obligation of the companies that bagged the contract to lay UGD pipelines. Re-laying the roads is the Corporation’s job and the two works ought not to be confused.
For re-laying the
roads that were dug and damaged, the Corporation had obtained funds
worth more than Rs. 50 crore from the State Government and had re-laid a
number of roads.
