Civic body aims to wrap up road repairs to beat hot-mix deadline
TNN | Jan 5, 2019, 09:01 IST
Picture used for representational purpose onlyKOLKATA: The civic roads department is all set to launch a massive road-repair drive next week and plans to wrap it up by January 31, a deadline set by mayor Firhad Hakim before the National Green Tribunal shuts the KMC hot-mix plants for spewing toxic fumes in the air.
The decision was taken after a meeting between Ratan De, MMiC overseeing the KMC roads department and the borough chairpersons. De, who confirmed Hakim’s deadline after which no major digging will be allowed, has asked the borough chairpersons to submit a list of battered roads in their jurisdictions by next week before the drive is launched.
Hakim’s deadline apart, the KMC roads department is rushing to finish the work as the fate of the civic body’s two hotmix plants, one at Palmer Bazar near Beliaghata and another at Goragachha near Taratala, might be shut once the NGT takes up a hearing over the two facilities in February. The KMC was allowed a fourmonth breather after it appealed to NGT judges to keep these plants open so that they could finish repairing the potholed roads with the hot-mix prepared there. “For now, we produce 2,000 tonnes of hotmix material in our plants. We need uninterrupted supply of this material for road repairs. So, we will have to finish repairs by month-end,” De said.
According to roads department sources, borough chairpersons from Behala, Jadavpur and EM Bypass demanded that stretches in their jurisdictions be taken up for revamp immediately. Citing the condition of parts of Diamond Harbour Road, a ruling party borough chairperson requested the civic top brass for a thorough repair of the Sakherbazar intersection, Chowrashta and the area near the Mint. Councillors from the Bypass areas demanded a permanent solution to pockmarked stretches at the Ruby crossing, on the Anwar Shah connector and Hiland Park area.
The department also looks to work on other thoroughfares, such as Chittaranjan Avenue, College Street, APC Roy Road, Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Gariahat Road, Rashbehari Avenue, Raja Subodh Mullick Road and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road in Tollygunge. “We have decided to repair some roads in the port area, as requested by the Port Trust. Taratala Road and Garden Reach Circular Road will be two of them,” a KMC official said.
The decision was taken after a meeting between Ratan De, MMiC overseeing the KMC roads department and the borough chairpersons. De, who confirmed Hakim’s deadline after which no major digging will be allowed, has asked the borough chairpersons to submit a list of battered roads in their jurisdictions by next week before the drive is launched.
Hakim’s deadline apart, the KMC roads department is rushing to finish the work as the fate of the civic body’s two hotmix plants, one at Palmer Bazar near Beliaghata and another at Goragachha near Taratala, might be shut once the NGT takes up a hearing over the two facilities in February. The KMC was allowed a fourmonth breather after it appealed to NGT judges to keep these plants open so that they could finish repairing the potholed roads with the hot-mix prepared there. “For now, we produce 2,000 tonnes of hotmix material in our plants. We need uninterrupted supply of this material for road repairs. So, we will have to finish repairs by month-end,” De said.
According to roads department sources, borough chairpersons from Behala, Jadavpur and EM Bypass demanded that stretches in their jurisdictions be taken up for revamp immediately. Citing the condition of parts of Diamond Harbour Road, a ruling party borough chairperson requested the civic top brass for a thorough repair of the Sakherbazar intersection, Chowrashta and the area near the Mint. Councillors from the Bypass areas demanded a permanent solution to pockmarked stretches at the Ruby crossing, on the Anwar Shah connector and Hiland Park area.
The department also looks to work on other thoroughfares, such as Chittaranjan Avenue, College Street, APC Roy Road, Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Gariahat Road, Rashbehari Avenue, Raja Subodh Mullick Road and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road in Tollygunge. “We have decided to repair some roads in the port area, as requested by the Port Trust. Taratala Road and Garden Reach Circular Road will be two of them,” a KMC official said.
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