NELLORE : In an attempt to develop infrastructure in Nellore, the district administration is planning to rope in support of people who hail from the town and have excelled in their chosen fields across the globe.

With fund crunch seriously affecting the district administration's efforts to improve civic conditions and roads, officials had initially planned to mobilise funds by selling Government lands. But they are having second thoughts as getting approvals is turning out to be time consuming. Given this backdrop, the administration has decided to depend on the town's reputation of having the highest number of contractors, industrialists and others who have settled well all over the world. Accordingly, senior officials have begun consulting well-to-do Nellorians to develop the town at least on infrastructure front.

And their efforts have started paying dividends. A class one contractor and noted industrialist of the town has agreed to develop the busy Grand Trunk road almost on a par with roads of metros. "To begin with the road between V. R. College to Gandhi statue will be taken up in the first phase followed by other roads. Beautification of the town will also be taken up in the subsequent phase," the senior police official said.

Master plan

The industrialist has in fact indicated his preparedness to send consultants to prepare the master plan. The first phase would be completed by February 2007 as a Sivaratri bonanza, the senior official said.

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