The Hindu 15.12.2010
Special roads project gets off to a start in city
Staff Reporter
| Shastri Road and Sathyamurthy Road to be re-laid |
PHOTO: S.SIVA SARAVANAN 
Work begins: Coimbatore Corporation has taken up re-laying of 27 roads in the city. The first of the special roads project works got under way on Monday at Ramnagar. –
COIMBATORE: Coimbatore Corporation on Monday launched its special roads programme in Ramnagar.
Corporation sources said the civic body would lay 27 roads measuring 17.2 km in various parts of the city. The total cost of the project: Rs. 5.20 crore.
On Monday, the work began in Ward 28 (Ramnagar) in the presence of Pynthamil Pari, Chairman, South Zone.
The cost of works in the area was Rs. 68.50 lakh, according to official sources here..
Mr. Pari said Shastri Road, Kalidas Road, Sathyamurthy Road, Sen Gupta Street and a few other roads would be re-laid.
The cost of laying Shastri Road was Rs. 27.5 lakh.
The sources clarified that as the area had underground drainage, there would be no need for digging up the roads again.
The civic body would complete the work before March 2011.
