Hyderabad: The standing committee of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) gave the green signal to officers from the town planning and engineering wing to take up the Strategic Road Development Plan and the double-bed room housing projects.
The committee, which is meeting for the first time, also approved of a total of 19 civic works. The projects approved also including road widening work at several junctions.
The committee has also given approval for the allotment of piece of land along with Amphi Theater to an extent of 700 square metres area on lease basis (for three years) in the premises of Indira Park, an over-bridge at Cherlapally and road widening at Dasaram Basthi. As far as staff service goes, the committee has also approved plans for the enhancement of wages for the contracted staff working for the GHMC.
GHMC acts tough on hoardings
The GHMC Commissioner has warned private advertising agencies about the strength of existing hoarding sand unipoles. The city body has asked agencies to follow rules and make sure structural stability of the hoardings and unipoles are as per regulation. The warning follows the collapse of an advertising unipole this May, which also caused deaths.
“The main priority of the GHMC is to safeguard security of citizens – not revenue. Last month strong winds brought down several advertising hoardings in the city. Engineers from JNTU are coordinating with agencies to determine structural integrity of existing structures across the city of Hyderabad, ” said Dr. B. Janardhan Reddy, Commissioner, GHMC.
According to records, there are 2,700 authorized hoardings and unipoles in the city. It’s believed that the number of illegal advertising structures are higher.
