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Road re-laying works begin

Friday, 24 December 2010 04:46 administrator
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The Hindu       24.12.2010

Road re-laying works begin

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation on Thursday commenced re-laying work on 387 km of 1,320 roads in the city. Inaugurating the work, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said that the work will be completed in 100 days.

Many roads in the city are damaged due to rains this year, he said.

“So the State government has allocated Rs.60 crore under the Special Roads Programme 2010-2011,” he added.

Under the scheme, 146 of 266 bus route roads would be covered. The details of the re-laying work would be available online in the Corporation website – www.chennaicorporation.gov.in. The re-laying works which were already finalised and stopped on account of rain have also commenced, at a cost of Rs.37 crore.

A State quality monitoring team is monitoring the re-laying work in the city. Mayor M.Subramanian and Chennai Corporation Commissioner D.Karthikeyan accompanied Mr.Stalin.

 

Rs. 7 crore for temporary repair works to roads

Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:33 administrator
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The Hindu       23.12.2010

Rs. 7 crore for temporary repair works to roads

Special Correspondent

Flood-hit areas in Cuddalore will be set right within 45 days, says Collector

CUDDALORE: Breaches in drainage channels, tanks and lakes, and, damaged roads in the flood-hit Cuddalore district will be set right within 45 days, according to Collector P. Seetharaman.

In a statement released here on Wednesday, he said that a sum of Rs. 1.5 crore had been allocated for repairing the roads in the municipalities as follows: Cuddalore, Rs 70 lakh; Chidambaram, Rs. 40 lakh; Vriddhachalam, Rs. 25 lakh; and Panruti, Rs. 15 lakh.

The Highways Department had earmarked a sum of Rs. 7 crore for carrying out temporary repair works to the roads. For strengthening the water sources, a sum of Rs. 4.32 crore had been sanctioned to the Water Resources Division of the Public Works Department, for securing the water sources in Chidambaram and Vriddhachalam blocks.

The Collector also directed the officials to clear pavement vegetable vendors at the uzhavar sandhai and allot them space within the sandhai. He categorically told the fish vendors in the Old Town area that they should do their business only at the specifically allotted places and not on the roadside.

These measures had been taken to clear traffic bottlenecks at these two points.

 

Corporation to develop model roads soon

Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:24 administrator
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The Hindu     23.12.2010

Corporation to develop model roads soon

Aloysius Xavier Lopez

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation will soon develop Usman Road, Thyagaraya Road and Sivaparakasam Road as model roads in the city. This will be the preliminary step towards redevelopment of T. Nagar after the civic body relocates hawkers to the complex it had built in Pondy Bazaar.

The civic body officials are waiting for the court orders to proceed with the relocation of the hawkers on the three roads. Within a week of a court order, the roads would be cleared of hawkers, said an official.

After 210 hawkers on Usman Road are relocated to the complex, the work on improving the aesthetics of the road is also likely to begin. The road would become more pedestrian-friendly. The number of hawkers to be relocated from Thyagaraya Road is 305. Fourteen hawkers are likely to be removed from Sivaprakasam Road to the complex that has been built on 43,032 sq.ft. space with three lifts. It would locate a total of 644 hawkers and shopkeepers, including those in the previous complex on the same site.

 
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