Fed up with constant road damages due to rains, water leakages and
sewerage overflows that causing untold hardships to motorists, the
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to hand over
the maintenance of certain stretches of roads to private agencies on an
experimental basis.

Initially, the corporation has proposed to
handover the maintenance of small patches and potholes to the agencies
on annual contract basis. Such a system is yielding positive results in
South Delhi where private agencies take care of road maintenance.

GHMC
is in the process of identifying such stretches which need constant
patch repair works and pothole fillings. In the next few days, tenders
for the same will be floated.  While GHMC will provide BT and other
materials required for filling potholes and doing patch-work, the
agencies will have to constantly monitor the area and visit it  once a
week. If they find frayed patches or potholes, they will be required to
fill up the patches.

If the damaged stretch is big, the
maintenance and recarpeting will be taken care by the corporation, GHMC
officials told Express. GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar during the weekly
Prajavani programme said that the proposed plan will provide more
clarity while taking up road repairing works under the GHMC limits.

“GHMC
is planning to come with a proposal of annual maintenance contracts on
some of the roads as a pilot project for taking up recarpeting works.
The contractor will be made responsible to take up the road repairing
works for the entire year,” the commissioner said.  

Somesh Kumar
asked all the deputy commissioners and zonal commissioners to give
details of the most damaged roads in next two or three days. He said
that all road repair works would be completed by December end.