MCC to concrete eight more roads

The Hindu        31.12.2010

MCC to concrete eight more roads

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.