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Mangalore: Corporation to Spend Rs. 25 cr. on Footpaths, Medians, Drains

  •   Wed, Jul 29 2009 08:16:09 AM

MANGALORE, Jul 29 (The Hindu): The State Finance Commission (SFC) recently sanctioned Rs. 25 crore to Mangalore City Corporation for development activities, according to Mayor M. Shankar Bhat.

A major portion of this fund would be utilised for laying footpaths, constructing stormwater drains, and improving medians on the newly laid roads.

The concreting of a few more roads would also be taken up with this fund, he said.

Mr. Bhat said that the corporation would reserve Rs. 3 crore for concreting the Surathkal-MRPL Road, Rs. 2 crore each for concreting the Kuloor-Kavoor Road and the Kuntikana-Kavoor Road, and to build a market at Surathkal. Footpaths had to be laid and stormwater drains constructed on a few recently concreted roads such as Lalbagh-Bejai Road, Hampankatta Circle-A.B. Shetty Circle Road, Hamlinton Circle-Rao and Rao Circle Road, and Old Clock Tower-Rao and Rao Circle Road, he said.

Fund utilisation

The concreting of Bejai-Kuntikana Road, Lower Bendoorwell Circle-Horticulture Junction Road, Bejai-Karangalpady Road, and A.B. Shetty Circle-Hamilton Circle Road was under way. The SFC’s fund would be utilised to lay footpaths and construct stormwater drains on these roads after concreting them. The concreting of these four roads would be over by September, he said. The Mayor said that the State Government had released Rs. 5 crore to the corporation recently for calamity relief works. This fund would be utilised to repair those tarred roads which had been damaged owing to heavy rains. Each of the 60 wards in the corporation would be provided with Rs. 8 lakh to meet the expenses arising out of certain immediate tasks in their respective areas, he said.

Bhat said that when he met the Chief Minister recently, the latter had promised to grant Rs. 50 crore more to the corporation for road related works, if the civic body had utilised the entire Rs. 100-crore special grant sanctioned to it for 2008-09 and 2009-10.
  

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  • Arun Kumar, Bendur

    Sun, Aug 02 2009

    Honourable Mayor, best wishes for good public works, keeping politics away, in the interest of the city and citizens, your attention is drawn to the following: 1. You must go round Mangalore atleast once in two days and note the inconvenience caused to the public and also supervise the quality of work going on. 2. Road cutting should be stopped, if necessary those responsible should give an undertaking that they will restore the road, not just throwing some mud and forget, to its original position. Many roads are dug on the edges/sides which are death gates for the two wheelers. You may also plan a permanent team at Corporation to repair and restore the roads which are cut for some reason. 3. You have announced 50% less self assessment tax but nothing is heard after that about the process, procedure, timeframe, simple application form etc. Awaiting your action on this. 4. Before becoming the Mayor you promised on several occasions, also on T.V. interview that a well designed air conditioned Central Fish Market and a well arranged City Bus stand. The public is patiently waiting to these important projects. 5. Mangalore Corniche project planned by Mr. Yogish Bhat is another good and prestigious project. Better, provision is made now for a railway or metro line together with a Ring road. Educated gentle citizens of Mangalore patiently waiting to see your action on the above.

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  • C FERRER, MANGALORE

    Wed, Jul 29 2009

    So when are the medians going to be atleast levelled with the road. Never mind when they are going to be proper medians for just walk into any garage and see the amount of vehicles coming in for bushing, bearing and tie rod changing. Shame on MCC who cannot even level the medians leave alone the other important jobs left half done.

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  • Ruchir Agarwal, mangalore

    Wed, Jul 29 2009

    Not a word , not a mention of the terrible side, that is about roads and by-lanes which are in a terrible state.

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