Standing panel’s nod sought for laying 2 tar roads

Nagpur: Even though tar roads of almost the entire city are in bad shape, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is all set to spend Rs66.73 lakh to asphalt two roads in ward number 28 (D) under Nehru Nagar zone.
NMC’s public works department (PWD) has submitted the proposals seeking administrative approval, and allow the Nehru Nagar zone to invite tenders for asphaltation of two roads before the standing committee meeting to be held on August 24.
TOI has been reporting on the pathetic condition of tar roads in Nagpur city. Recently, standing committee chairman Prakash Bhoyar had announced that the city has around 3,360 potholes only. A couple of days before Bhoyar’s statement, TOI had published that the NMC’s hotmix department itself claimed to have repaired 5,465 potholes on various roads in 10 zones across the city.
As per PWD’s proposal, the first tar road which will be asphalted is in Amba Nagar Three Star Cooperative Housing Society. The department has prepared a proposal of over Rs40.52 lakh for this work.
Similarly, the zone proposed another asphaltation of tar road worth Rs26.21 lakh in the same ward 28-D, which is the constituency of BJP corporator Rekha Sakore.
On Friday, Congress corporator Neha Nikose alleged discrimination by the ruling party in allocation of funds for development works.
The other proposals included spending of Rs70 lakh for purchasing printing material (worth Rs20 lakh) and office stationery (Rs50 lakh) for a year, giving one year’s extension to women’s counseling centres, purchase of two chain crawler excavators worth Rs45.21 lakh each (which will be used for solid waste management at Bhandewadi dumping yard), and strengthening streetlights in Dharampeth zone by erecting electric poles at a cost of Rs27.84 lakh.