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City of bad roads: No solution in sight
According to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) engineers, they are contemplating to hand over the city roads and their maintenance to private players. The corporation is also planning to fix standard security road (SSR) rates for a period of three years. The State government has asked the corporation officials to prepare a detail project report (DPR) and submit it within three wee
Hyderabad: Even as the Chief Minister is under the impression that only 10 percent of roads in the State capital have been damaged, the fact remains the other way round. With the city presenting a grim picture with badly damaged roads across the length and breadth of the megalopolis, it appears that there is going to be no relief to the road users for at least another one month and they will have to put up with huge potholes as deep as one feet even on main roads and flyovers.
According to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) engineers, they are contemplating to hand over the city roads and their maintenance to private players. The corporation is also planning to fix standard security road (SSR) rates for a period of three years. The State government has asked the corporation officials to prepare a detail project report (DPR) and submit it within three weeks.
They said that the GHMC engineers’ wing would inspect the quality of roads on regular intervals. Besides this, the corporation is also planning to lay white top roads on 50 stretches at various locations in the city. A two-km stretch of white top road would cost Rs 50 crore, according to sources.
Accepting that the city roads were in horrible condition, a senior GHMC official said it was all due to the recent rainfall, and the corporation would lay roads in three phases which include, short term, midterm and long term plans. As the first step, the corporation would immediately rectify minor damages, lay BT roads in the midterm plan and lay white top roads, which would sustain in any conditions for a period of at least five years in the final phase.
The official further said that the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao had also decided to amend the GHMC Act in this regard. He said the corporation would include clauses in the Act wherein the private player would be held responsible for any road damage for a period of at least three years in order to avoid and minimise the road damages.
They would also be provided with a list of line departments like Water Board, Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited, Sewerage Board etc and gather full information about their activities before laying the roads.
