KCR Orders Re-Carpeting Of City Roads Immediately

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao held a review meeting with GHMC officials this morning at his camp office and instructed them to undertake road network repairs in the city on a war-footing by starting the work within ten days and completing them within a month.

Roads & Buildings Minister Tummala Nageswar Rao, Principal Secretary to the CM S Narsing Rao, GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar, and the Chief Engineer and Superintendent Engineers of the GHMC attended the meeting.

Addressing the meeting, the Chief Minister said that the roads in many areas in the city had been damaged due to rains, and needed immediate repairs.

He said that a list of all such damaged roads must be prepared immediately so that tenders could be called for online within a short time and work entrusted thereafter.

Even at places where the Metro Rail works were going on, the GHMC officials should speak with the officials concerned and make arrangements to undertake repairs without disturbing the ongoing Metro Rail works, he said.

"While undertaking repairs, the GHMC has to work out the details of the number of roads needing total renewal and those needing only strengthening. Attention has to be given even to small patches here and there. The repair works should use modern technology so that the roads survive for a longer period," the Chief Minister said.

The CM also discussed with the GHMC officials the length of the roads that could be laid with concrete. The CM has decided that as part of a special road upliftment drive in Hyderabad, 1,000 lane kilometers of roads will be relaid as Black Top Roads, and 400 lane kilometers will be relaid as White Top Roads, at a total cost of Rs 500 crores.

Reviewing the issue of illegal constructions, the Chief Minister said that despite BRS and LRS, illegal activities were going on. He instructed the GHMC officials to check and prepare a strategy to stop illegal constructions. For this, the CM suggested the creation of a special flying squad wing directly under the control and supervision of the GHMC Commissioner, and a perfect strategy to be prepared for its functioning.

The CM also agreed, in principle, to a nominal imposition of Property Tax not exceeding Rs 101 for some five lakh houses whose owners are currently paying a tax of Rs 1,200 and below. The GHMC officials were asked to work out the details pertaining to them for a final decision.