The Times of India       05.01.2011

CHENNAI: About 1,320 heavily-battered roads in the city will be relaid in a span of two months, corporation mayor M Subramanian announced on Tuesday. The road relaying exercise could not be take up earlier because of rains, he said.

Reviewing road relaying works at Nungambakkam, Subramanian said 25 roads had been relaid in the last ten days at Rs 1.2 crore. "The damaged roads spread across ten zones would be repaired at Rs 117 crore and work on many roads will be completed shortly," he said. Development works, including construction of stormwater drains for about 400 km under the central JNNURM scheme and laying of water pipelines by Metrowater for about 300 km, had affected the roads.

Subramanian said the state government had extended assistance to the tune of Rs 60 crore under the special road programme 2010-11 for relaying works. The local body also made use of its capital funds to repair 100 km of interior and bus route roads. "Quality control engineers have been engaged to certify the quality of roads and public can get the details at www.chennaicorporation.gov.in," the mayor said.

Following an extensive study by the bus route department of the corporation, at least 387 km of roads damaged in the rains were taken up for restoration. These included Tondiarpet High Road, N S C Bose Road, Madhavaram High Road, Paper Mills Road, New Avadi Road, Anna Nagar Second, Third, Four, Five and Sixth Avenues, Pantheon Road, Rukmani Lakshmipathy Salai, P V Rajamannar Salai, Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Salai, Santhome High Road and Ramakrishna Mutt Road.

The Hindu        31.12.2010

MCC to concrete eight more roads

Kalikamba Temple Junction-Durga Mahal road in Mangalore will be concreted.

MANGALORE: Infrastructure development in the city is expected to get a further boost in 2011.

The Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) has proposed to concrete at least eight more roads in the financial year commencing from April 2011. It has also proposed to construct drains and footpaths along the concrete roads that have been completed, and put up streetlights on the medians.

In addition, it has planned to asphalt select roads in the 60 wards and focus on traffic management. The corporation has planned to supply drinking water round-the-clock in 10 select wards on an experimental basis.

Except water supply, other development activities are expected to be taken up utilising the Rs. 100-crore additional grant which the State Government sanctioned to the corporation recently.

“The corporation has received approval for the additional grant of Rs. 100 crore from the Government. We have sent an action plan to be implemented using this grant for approval,'' Corporation Commissioner K.N. Vijayaprakash told The Hindu.

Mr. Vijayaprakash said that the eight more roads proposed for concreting were Durga Mahal-Kudroli-Kalikamba Junction Road, Kodical Main Road, Derebail Konchady-Kavoor Road, Kavoor Shantinagar Maidan to Kavoor Junction Road, Kadekar Mallikarjuna Temple Road, Chitrapura Road, Shivagiri Road, and Malady Court Road. The Commissioner said that the corporation had concreted 39 km of roads in the city in the past three years. It covered 16 roads. In the State Budget for 2008-09, the Government announced a Rs. 100-crore grant to the corporation for infrastructure development in two instalments of Rs. 50 crore each for 2008-09 and 2009-10. Of the amount, the corporation had spent Rs. 85 crore mainly on concreting roads and a few other projects, Mr. Vijayaprakash said.

He said that the corporation had earmarked Rs. 15 crore for asphalting roads in 60 wards in the next financial year using the additional grant of Rs. 100 crore. Thus, each ward would get Rs. 25 lakh for asphalting work.

The Commissioner said that the corporation would reserve at least Rs. 3 crore for traffic management in the city next year. Mr. Vijayaprakash said that Rs. 1 crore had been earmarked for the development of crematoria in the city. Games facilities for physically challenged children would be made available at Gandhinagar Park.