`309cr set aside for good roads

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to take up the road restoration works on a war footing. The state government has accorded administrative sanction of `309.79 crore for road repairs works under periodical preventive maintenance and complete them by October. Besides this, the corporation and Hyderabad Road Development Corporation will also construct 309.76 km footpath at an estimated cost of `87.71 crore.

The GHMC has taken up restoration works on roads which have damaged due to recent rainfall. The footpaths in cement concrete white topping works have been sanctioned under Periodical Preventive Maintenance where total 48,952 metres for which `916.78 lakh has been sanctioned in Uppal, Santosh Nagar, Falaknuma, Jubilee Hills, Yousufguda, Quthbullapur, Secunderabad, Begumpet and will be completed by October 31.

The works pertaining to footpaths in BT Roads sanctioned under PPM for which `1503.64 lakh sanctioned for 70,970 kilometre in Uppal, Malakpet, Santosh

Nagar, Chandrayangutta, Charminar, Falaknuma, Rajendranagar Circles and the works will be completed by October 15. The corporation will lay 157.53 km at a cost of `29.64 crore and Hyderabad Road Development Corporation will construct 152.23 kms footpath for which `58.07 crore had been sanctioned.

GHMC, HRDC to build 309.76km of footpath.

RESTORATION OF roads damaged due to recent rainfall.

WORK TO start on footpaths in BT Roads for `1503.64 lakh.