Coimbatore: The city corporation will carry out restoration work on
72 roads at an estimated cost of Rs 6.8 crore. The patch-up work, which began on February 10, will go on for another 10 days. They plan to cover all the stretches that were damaged due to laying of pipelines and electric and telecommunication cables on roads. The Tamil Nadu Urban Road Infrastructure Project has sanctioned funds to the corporation to carry out this work.
“We will be using a part of the corporation fund as well for this work. We had collected an amount from residents while laying underground drainage and water pipelines. That fund for road restoration will be used when selected stretches will be re-laid,” said an official.
According to corporation officials, some areas such as Kavundampalayam and Veerakeralam will be dug up by the Tamil Nadu water supply and drainage board for laying Siruvani pipelines. “So these areas will not be taken up for road restoration. Patch work on these roads will be carried out after the pipeline work is completed,” said an official. Similarly, patch work will not be carried in areas such as Sarvanampatti, Chinnavedampatti and Kalapatti.
In the west zone, the civic body will patch up roads in areas such as R S Puram, Saibaba Colony, D B Road and Bharathi Park Road at a cost of Rs 2.7 crore. In the north zone, roads in areas such as Ganapathy and Thudiyalur will be patched up for Rs 1.30 crore. In the central zone, Gandhipuram, R G Street, Raja Street and Oppanakara Street will be patched up for Rs 1.3 crore. In the south zone, seven roads will be patched up at a cost of Rs 51 lakh and in the east zone10 roads will be patched up for Rs 89 lakh.
Totally, Rs 6.80 crore will be spent on 72 roads only for patch work. “After the patch work is completed, we will re-lay some stretches under the TURIP fund,” said an official.
In the city, the corporation had spent more than Rs 50 crore and laid roads before the 2014 state assembly elections. Since then, some roads were taken up for re-laying after they were dug up for underground drainage pipelines.
