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Roads in Bijapur to be concreted

BIJAPUR: The city is set have many concrete roads. In the first phase, 30 roads will be concreted.

They include Santoshimata Temple Road, Jumma Masjid Road, Ganapati Gudi-Managuli Agasi Road, Babaleshwar Naka-Ibrahim Rouja Road, Indi Raod, Astfel Bungalow Road, Ganapati Chowk Road, Munjanni Galli of Jorapur, Sunagar Galli, Apsara Talkies Road and Hamid Nagar and Taj Nagar main road. In most cases, only partial stretches of the selected roads ranging from 200 metres to 500 metres will be concreted.

After formally commencing work at different places in the city, Minister for Textiles Appasaheb Pattanashetti said on Saturday that the Government had released Rs. 13.26 crore for the development of infrastructure here. Of the amount, Rs. 10.06 crore had been earmarked for roadwork, including Rs. 3.54 crore for concrete roads. As many as 65 roads mostly inner lanes would be asphalted, for which Rs. 6.51 crore had been earmarked.

The remaining Rs. 3.2 crore would be spent on sanitation, public toilets, streetlights and some other allied work, he said.

Mr. Pattanashetti said that the roadwork would be completed according to specific standards. The system of contract piecework had been abolished and all packages had been entrusted to qualified contractors after the tender process, he added

Referring to the Asian Development Bank-assisted North Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Project, Mr. Pattanashetti said the city would get Rs. 48 crore under the scheme, a major sum of which would be spent on the drainage system. The work would commence within a month.

Besides, he said, efforts were on to get funds under the Union Government-sponsored Urban Infrastructure Development for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSMT) scheme for improving the water distribution system in city. A Rs. 56-crore proposal had been submitted to the Union Urban Development Ministry.

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