Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is to embark on a major road laying mission costing an estimated Rs 454.75 crore, which will be completed by March 2018. According to GHMC officials, roads cannot be laid during the monsoon from June to October every year when the hot mix plants are closed, and work cannot be done on a wet surface.
So roads can only be repaired or re-laid from November to May. The GHMC admits that this is the first time it has prepared a road map for laying roads in a systematic way after holding interactive sessions with technical experts and professors of IIT, BITS, JNTU, OU & ASCI. A GHMC official said that the corporation will lay BT (black top or bituminous) roads in 158 stretches costing Rs 155.22 crore, cement concrete (CC) roads in 60 stretches at a cost of Rs 63.93 crore and white topping roads at 103 stretches costing Rs 235.60 crore. Other roads will be taken up on priority after March.
“As development of infrastructure has to be done simultaneously, road cutting by HMWS&SB and TSSPDCL will be permitted. Restoring such roads will take more time. There may be some traffic restrictions for CC roads and white topping roads and citizens will have to cooperate,” the official added.
