The Times of India 05.01.2011
Road repairs in two months: Mayor
CHENNAI: About 1,320 heavily-battered roads in the city will be relaid in a span of two months, corporation mayor M Subramanian announced on Tuesday. The road relaying exercise could not be take up earlier because of rains, he said.
Reviewing road relaying works at Nungambakkam, Subramanian said 25
roads had been relaid in the last ten days at Rs 1.2 crore. “The damaged
roads spread across ten zones would be repaired at Rs 117 crore and
work on many roads will be completed shortly,” he said. Development
works, including construction of stormwater drains for about 400 km
under the central JNNURM scheme and laying of water pipelines by
Metrowater for about 300 km, had affected the roads.
Subramanian said the state government had extended assistance to the
tune of Rs 60 crore under the special road programme 2010-11 for
relaying works. The local body also made use of its capital funds to
repair 100 km of interior and bus route roads. “Quality control
engineers have been engaged to certify the quality of roads and public
can get the details at www.chennaicorporation.gov.in,” the mayor said.
Following an extensive study by the bus route department of the
corporation, at least 387 km of roads damaged in the rains were taken up
for restoration. These included Tondiarpet High Road, N S C Bose Road,
Madhavaram High Road, Paper Mills Road, New Avadi Road, Anna Nagar
Second, Third, Four, Five and Sixth Avenues, Pantheon Road, Rukmani
Lakshmipathy Salai, P V Rajamannar Salai, Pasumpon Muthuramalingam
Salai, Santhome High Road and Ramakrishna Mutt Road.