GHMC decides to take up road repair work on war footing

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to take up road restoration work on a war footing. As per initial estimates, stretches over a road length of 300 km were damaged, and engineers have now been asked to identify badly damaged roads for immediate restoration work and send a report to the headquarters.

Municipal administration department secretary Navin Mittal held an emergency meeting with GHMC engineering officials on Wednesday night and directed them to fill potholes by Thursday night. Officials said 2,100 potholes were identified in all five



zones. Mittal also served a 10-day deadline for road restoration work.He directed GHMC commissioner to blacklist contractors who failed to comply .

“The cement concrete roads will take some more time as it involves technical and traffic issues,“ GHMC commissioner B Janardhan Reddy told  on Wednesday .“As per procedure, municipal authorities have to call for tenders for works above `1 lakh. Since even short term tenders are a time consuming process, the works will be allotted to empanelled contractors,“ the commissioner said.