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Tamil Nadu
Tirupur Corpn. to handover 13 roads to Highways Dept.
Staff Reporter
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It will reduce financial burden of local body: Mayor
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— Photo: M. Balaji
Needs attention: Roads such as these in Tirupur require maintenance throughout the year.
TIRUPUR: The Tirupur Corporation has decided to handover 13 important stretches in the city to the Highways Department for maintenance.
The stretches, the local body wanted to handover, are 60 ft Road (connecting Avanashi Road and Perumanallur Road); Sivan Theatre Road; Valayankadu Main Road (from Avanashi Road upto Corporation limits); Angeripalayam Road; Kannagi Nagar 60 ft Road; Kongu Nagar Main Road; VOC Nagar Main Road; Nataraja Theatre Road (through Nehru Street up to Railway Station); Silver Jubilee Park Road; Mangalam Road-Murugampalayam Road; Palladam Road to Mangalam Road via Karaithottam; Kangeyampalayam Pudur Road and Thennampalayam Road.
These roads require maintenance throughout the year. All these stretches are connecting highways and buses are plying on these roads.
Mayor K. Selvaraj told The Hindu that if these stretches were handed over to the Highways Department, it would reduce financial burden of the local body towards their maintenance. He said it took a long time, mainly due to procedural delays, for the local body to allot funds for maintenace. “Every time we want to do some patchwork on a road, we need to get the approval of the Corporation council and then call for tenders. It will be better if the department takes care of it,” he points out.
Resolutions were passed in this regard at the Corporation council on Monday.
Councillor M. Ashokan said that the Corporation could spend its funds to improve interior parts of the city if the Highways Department took care of the main stretches. He said the Corporation need to spend at least Rs.17 crore to lay 153 km-long black-topped roads in unapproved layouts across the city.
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