The New Indian Express 02.11.2010
'Only Rs 2 crore spent on road patch works'
Reacting to an Express report published on Sunday, Commissioner D Karthikeyan said, “The Corporation launched a massive road repair work on bus route roads between October 18 and 27. The contractors for the works used a mix from Corporation’s Central Asphalt Plant to repair the roads and works were carried out in an area of 88,060 sq m at a cost of about Rs 2 crore.”
“We have conducted a survey prior to taking up the scheme and identified 4.5 lakh sq m roads that required maintenance. So far, we are able to complete about 20 per cent of identified patches. The rest of the stretches will be taken up after the monsoon. The expenditure reported in Express as Rs 8 crore is incorrect,” the Commissioner said in a statement.
He added that the Mannadi Street mentioned in the article was an interior road and not covered under the bus route roads scheme.
He further said that Adambakkam Bus Stand was not maintained by the Corporation and the Metropolitan Transport Corporation would be approached to rectify the problems there.
A photograph of the Adambakkam bus stand was published in the newspaper.
