Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Dec 22: Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister, Krishna J Palemar, has said that the concreting work of the important roads in the city will be completed within the next six months. He was speaking to reporters after taking part in the progress review meeting of road development works in the city, organized in the office of the city mayor on Sunday December 20.
“The road concreting work taken up by using the special grant of Rs 100 crore sanctioned by the Chief Minister is almost complete. The work of laying footpaths, drains and dividers is pending at a few places. They will be attended to shortly,” he assured.
District deputy commissioner, V Ponnuraj, criticized the City Corporation engineers for the undue delay in laying inter locks at the intersections where minor roads branch out of the concreted roads. The mayor said that the works are not progressing as expected, because of the staff shortage. He pointed out that the number of employees provided to the Corporation has remained the same, although the works handled by it has gone up from the earlier Rs 15 crore to Rs 130 crore.