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Reining in heavy-carriers

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) will launch a drive against parking of heavy vehicles on corporation roads.

Municipal Commissioner Natarajan Gulzar said here on Saturday that officials would be strict and vehicles once seized would not be released. Vehicles were being parked on roads even where VMC put up signs.

Vertical barricades were removed from nine places in the city to allow heavy vehicles to enter the city for the benefit of traders.

Horizontal barricades had been erected at some points and keys to locks put on horizontal beams were given to traders. There was no difficulty for fire tenders and ambulances to enter these streets, Mr. Gulzar said.

The Commissioner said that the court had not given a verdict on the matter and the claim that it had issued an order for removal of barricades was not correct.

He said Visalandhra Road, Patamata ZP High School Road, Vemula Saradadevi Road (connecting Eluru Road with IGMC Stadium) and roads running along the edges of Swaraj Maidan had been short-listed for widening.

Polythene bags

Mr. Gulzar said there was a need to ban the use of polythene bags in the city. They were the most frequent cause for the blocking of underground drainage.

He said the banning of polythene bags from the city would be put on the agenda of the next general body meeting.

The Commissioner said Prakash Arts bagged the contract for putting up four small unipoles on the edges of Swaraj Maidan and a wall would be constructed to mark the limits of the ground.

All encroachments on the ground would be gradually removed and greenery developed along the edges.

It would cost Rs. 40 lakhs to Rs. 45 lakhs to construct the wall. There would be eight to nine gates giving free access to the ground from all sides, Mr. Gulzar said.

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