Fix targets for completion of OHSR, officials told

Hyderabad: Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar on Tuesday instructed the officials to fix timelines for completion of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (OHSR) and ensure that they are completed and functional by the end of September.

The MAUD principal secretary while reviewing the public health with engineers took stock of the progress achieved in Urban Mission Bhagiratha, AMRUT and TMDP works. Arvind Kumar said under AMRUT an amount of Rs 1,550 crore was spent in 10 municipalities and corporations towards water supply schemes of which 85 per cent work is completed.

Under the World Bank funded TMDP programme, works in Armoor, Manugur and Jammikunta are completed while those in Huzurabad, Kothagudem, Medak and Kollapur are in progress, he added. Arvind Kumar informed the officials that he would tour the towns to personally supervise the progress of the works from the first week of next month and asked them to ensure substantial progress by that time.

Engineer in Chief Dhan Singh and other officials attended the meeting. Later he held a meeting with GHMC officials and reviewed the progress of the road works taken up under the Strategic Road Development Programme (SRDP). Commissioner Dana Kishore, Additional Commissioners Advaith Singh, Sikta Patnaik, CEs Sridhar, Suresh Kumar and Ziayuddin and LB Nagar Zonal Commissioner Srinivas Reddy attended the meeting.