With the roads pockmarked with potholes and bitumen layer washed away due to the recent rains all over the twin cities, the government has decided to permit GHMC to take up extensive road repairs within a day of publication of tender notices “for extreme emergency works.”

The decision was taken following the request of GHMC Commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy to the government to reduce the time line for taking up works considering that even a single delay in taking up emergency repairs to the roads or demolishing dilapidated structures would result in much more damage and much inconvenience to citizens.

As per the prevailing norms, the municipal corporation will have to wait for 14 days and another seven days of calling for tenders for issuing work orders and this was preventing the civic body from taking up emergency civic works, especially during the monsoon, he explained.

KTR reviews situation

Earlier in the day, Minister for Municipal Administration K.T. Rama Rao held a meeting the heads of various civic departments, including the HMDA, Hyderabad Road Development Corporation etc., and directed the engineering wings concerned to focus on road works for the next three months.

They were told to convert all the metal roads into cement roads to ensure the thoroughfares are more durable, withstanding the weather vagaries.

The cost for taking up such works should be studied and submitted to the government.

More consultants should be drafted for preparing the detailed project reports for the roads development and only reputed firms are to be called for the proposed pre-bid meeting to be held later this week.

Tenders should also be finalised as soon as possible, a press release said.

360 complaints

Meanwhile, the GHMC has claimed that it had received 360 rain related complaints of which 230 were resolved.

These include those relate to overflow of drains, water logging on roads, tree felling, power supply cut, manholes cover missing etc. About 51 of them were related to water board too.

Complaints were received from Dial 100, GHMC Call Centre 040-2111111, online and mobile applications.