Chennai Corporation to relay roads for the monsoon
Posted on: 09/Aug/2016 10:41:39 AM
The Chennai Corporation is planning on re laying 294 arterial roads in the city ahead of the monsoon. The civic body is quickly running out of time as the monsoon season nears. The Corporation has also kick started the construction of new storm water drains worth Rs 1.65 crore aimed at reduce flooding in Amateur and western suburbs.
Specking about this, a senior official from the Chennai Corporation said, The Corporation is now on tender floating spree to establish new parks, widen and desilt existing storm water drains and to relay city roads. We have completed 65 per cent of storm water drain works planned for the year and another 30 per cent will be completed by the end of August.
A high level meeting chaired by Chennai mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy and corporation commissioner D. Karthickeyan discussed the ongoing major storm water drain works in Padi, Annai Sathya Nagar, Korattur and Ambattur estate taken up at a cost of Rs 5.6 crore and also enquired about the hydrology flow of stormwater channels connecting Otteri Nullah. Areas that suffered floods during last December have been earmarked and the same is reported to City Corporation. Storm water drain works to a tune of Rs 7 crore are taken up for Perambur, Thiruvi Ka Nagar and adjoining areas. Executive engineers have been appointed as nodal officers for relaying interior and arterial roads and deadlines have been fixed and tender are floated in areas where Chennai metro water has taken up road cut works, a corporation engineer said adding that tender bulletins issued by the corporation now focuses more on road relaying and box type storm water drain works.
