KMDA to repair 151 roads across five districts in Kolkata

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority has been entrusted with the responsibility of repairing 151 roads spread across five districts under the ‘Pathashree Abhijan’ project launched by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on October 1. The roads identified by the KMDA are mainly approach roads to the city spread across five districts, including North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Nadia and Hooghly.
According to senior KMDA officials, more than 70% roads are located in Howrah, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas and they directly lead to Kolkata. In Howrah, most of the roads fall under Howrah Municipal Corporation, Bally and Belur municipality areas and some roads fall under Uluberia area.
Similarly in North 24 Parganas, KMDA has been entrusted with the responsibility to repair roads that fall under Barrackpore, Madhyamgram, and Bhatpara and in South 24 Parganas the roads mainly in Mahestala, Thakurpukur and Amtala area. Apart from that, there are some roads in Serampore, Sheoraphuli, Baidyabati, Bhadreshwar in Hooghly and Kalyani, Gayeshpur in Nadia, where repairing work will also be conducted.
“We have received the list of roads that need to be repaired and maintained by us under the Pathashree Abhiyan project. We have started the survey to ascertain the exact length of these roads so that we can come up with the estimate of total expenditure that will be required for repair of these roads. We will then seek financial sanction from the state finance department and after we get the nod, we will float tender,” a senior KMDA official said.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee launched the Pathashree Abhiyan scheme on October 1 during her recent North Bengal visit, where she announced that under this mission more than 7,000 stretches of roads comprising 12,000 kilometres across the state will be repaired in a time-bound manner.