Roads and Buildings Principal Secretary says that the focus is on improving the quality of new roads.
Roads and Buildings Principal Secretary says that the focus is on improving the quality of new roads.
Road and Building Principal Secretary MT Krishna Babu said on Saturday that Rs 2,500 crore is being spent on renovation and repair works as nearly 8,000 km of roads were damaged due to heavy rains last year.
A new system of paying all bills of road contractors within a week of completion of work is being devised, and it will be implemented soon, he said, adding that efforts are being made to improve the quality of roads. Huh.
In the review meeting of the implementation of various projects in Sri Sathya Sai district on Saturday, the Principal Secretary held a meeting with District Collector P. Basant Kumar, former Minister Malagundla Sankaranarayanan and Puttaparthi MLA D. Sridhar Reddy and other officials in the forenoon session. Later
In the review meeting, Shri Krishna Babu said that 40,000 acres of land was acquired in the state within a record time of four months to speed up the speedy execution of projects.
All these road renewal projects will be completed by the end of May, Mr Krishna Babu said and informed that a third party independent agency is conducting quality checks for all the road projects being implemented in the state.
For each of the two districts, a Chief Engineer was appointed to monitor and quality check the projects.
4289.255 km of highways were being laid in Kalyandurg, Dharmavaram and Anantapur divisions, of which 3174.915 were state highways.