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Coimbatore Corporation has sought further funds to instrumentality up restoration of damaged roads successful definite parts of the city. The civic assemblage maintains a full roadworthy web of 3,367.87 km.
Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran said a connection was sent to the State authorities seeking ₹45 crore to re-lay damaged roads. Existing funds were exhausted and the damages were caused by caller underground drainage works, 24/7 drinking h2o task executed by Suez, and stretches that were earlier earthen roads and present brought nether the re-laying plan.
The Commissioner said that erstwhile the required magnitude was sanctioned, road-laying enactment would commence. “We expect the authorisation wrong 2 months arsenic we person to finalise tenders earlier the predetermination is announced. If not, we volition temporarily marque the roads motorable and set with disposable funds connected a precedence basis,” helium said.
Under the ₹200-crore peculiar money announced by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for roadworthy restoration, the Corporation has, truthful far, completed works covering 277.13 km, portion enactment connected 226.54 km is successful progress.
Separately, the civic assemblage has, to date, executed 5,215 roadworthy improvement works nether schemes including the Tamil Nadu Urban Road Infrastructure Project (TURIP), Nagarpura Salai Mempattu Thittam (NSMT), and State Finance Commission (SFC) peculiar funds. These covered 860.69 km of roads astatine a full outgo of ₹415.06 crore.
