The Hindu 27.07.2013
New roads to be sanctioned on the spot
The Madurai Corporation has announced that new roads
will be sanctioned on the spot and laid immediately without any
procedural delay.
The new system will come into
effect immediately in all the 100 wards of the city and the councillors
can approach the authorities if they want road works to be carried out
in their wards.
This was announced by the Corporation
Commissioner R. Nanthagopal at the Council meeting held here on Friday
after a councillor drew his attention to several proposals for new roads
waiting for official sanction for long.
“We have
tried out spot sanction of roads in wards 5, 24 and 54. I will visit
every ward, inspect the quality of roads along with the City Engineer
and Executive Engineer. If the road condition is bad, we will sanction
the work on the spot and funds will be given,” he said.
The
Commissioner was responding to a question raised by Councillor P.Muthu
Meena (Ward 81) who complained that despite repeated pleas for laying of
roads, the Corporation was taking a lot of time to sanction the works.
She
said the files prepared to get official concurrence had to go from one
section to the other, and by the time everything was cleared the road
condition turned worse.
Agreeing with the council
member’s grievance, Mr.Nanthagopal said delay in sanctioning road works
was due to the procedures involved in preparing of estimates, issuing
approval by the department concerned and sanctioning of funds.
Monthly visit
The
Commissioner also informed the Council that Mayor V.V.Rajan Chellappa,
himself and a team of officials would visit all the wards every month to
redress public grievances in the presence of the ward councillors
concerned.