Hyderabad: KTR prods officials to fast-track SRDP works

Hyderabad: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K Taraka Rama Rao on Monday asked officials to instruct the agencies involved in Strategic Road Development Project (SRDP) to deploy additional manpower and machinery to take up parallel works simultaneously to complete project in time.

The Minister reviewed the ongoing 18 works under SRDP and instructed officials to speed up the works and government agencies to shift the utility services well in advance so as to take up the works and complete at the earliest without any delay.

After reviewing project wise details of works and their status, the Minister asked the engineering officials to instruct the agencies for deployment of additional manpower and machinery for each unit in shifts round the clock so as to complete the project at the earliest.

Further, if required traffic diversion can be taken up at important places in consultation with the traffic police, he added.

The Minister also asked the engineer officials to suggest how to tackle the situations and overcome the problems to complete the project on time.

Mayor Bonthu Rammohan, MAUD Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar, GHMC Commissioner Lokesh Kumar, CE Projects Sridhar and senior officials from Engineering, HMWS&SB, DISCOM and agencies attended the meeting.