The Hindu      22.12.2014  

Mandya CMC to soon take up several development projects

The number of vehicles plying on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway that
passes through Mandya has increased enormously, necessitating
improvementof certain facilities.

The Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DELT) and the
Mandya City Municipal Council (CMC) have proposed to take up
developmental projects in the congested areas of the city.

To
this end, the CMC has prepared a detailed project report (DPR)
pertaining to various developmental schemes and submitted it to the
DELT, which would be funding 60 per cent of the cost.

The
CMC will bear the remaining cost of the project. In association of the
directorate, the civic authority will construct a pedestrian over-bridge
near the Saint John’s Church on Bengaluru-Mysuru highway; a hawkers’
zone near the Mandya Urban Development Authority layout on the
Mandya-Nagamangala highway and several bus-bays, R. Prathap, Executive
Engineer of the CMC, told
The Hindu.
The proposed over-bridge will be the first one to be constructed here.
The council was aiming at improving coordination in planning and
implementation of urban transport projects, N.M. Shashikumar,
Commissioner of Mandya CMC, told this correspondent.

Urbanisation
could become successful only with effective urban transport system.
Therefore, with the help of the directorate, the CMC would improve the
circles and pavements across the city, he said.

A sum of Rs. 4.82 crore would be spent on these projects.

A
high-level team from DELT would visit Mandya in the first week of
January to examine the feasibility of the projects, Mr. Prathap said.

Schemes include construction of an over-bridge and a few bus-bays

Detailed project report prepared by CMC has been submitted to DELT