Chennai: Chennai
mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy on Thursday kickstarted the road
be­autification project, a CSR initiative of Con­federation of Real
Estate Developers Association of India (Credai), in association with the
corporation of Chennai

Instructing  civic engineers to
provide basic de­tails required for the bea­utification project and to
coordinate with the Cre­dai team, Duraisamy advised corporation field
workers to periodically clear the silt that accumulated along footpaths.

Sandeep
Mehta, president, Credai, said, “This is our CSR initiative and we want
to make  a marked difference in the conservancy operations. We will
engage outside agencies for  maintenance and cleaning. Dedi­cated
conservancy workers will be put to work in a four-hour shift basis twice
daily to ensure litter free roads.

The
medians, traffic islands on the assigned roads will also be maintained.
The team will report damages in civic infrastructure to  co­rporation.
Watering of plants on me­dians, aesthetics of tr­a­ffic islands, removal
of unauthorised banners and wa­ll posters, pruning of tre­es along the
roads and facilitating ad­e­quate illumination at ni­ght will al­so be
undertaken by Credai, he added.

According to city
corporation sources,  in the first phase, 12 roads have been assigned to
Credai Chennai for facelift. The roads include  EVK Sampath Salai,
Jothi Venkatachalam Salai, Vepery High Road, Raja Muthaiah  Road,
Gangadeeswarar Koil Street, Gandhi Irwin Road, Purasawalkam  High  Road,
Raja Annamalai Road, Narayana Guru Salai, Police Commissioners Road,
Pantheon Road and Whannels Road.