Guntur Collector calls for safer, aesthetically designed junctions

District Collector and Special Officer of the Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) C. M. Sai Kanth Varma connected Wednesday directed civic authorities to make safer and aesthetically designed roadworthy junctions crossed the metropolis portion strictly adhering to engineering standards successful each infrastructure works.

Accompanied by GMC Commissioner K. Mayur Ashok, the Collector inspected cardinal roads and junctions successful Guntur, including Hindu College Junction, B.R. Naidu Junction, Collectorate Junction, Three Statues Junction, Chuttugunta Junction and Medical Club Junction. He besides reviewed landscaping proposals for VIP Road.

Later, during a reappraisal gathering held astatine the GMC league hall, officials examined proposals prepared by representatives of Andhra Pradesh Urban Infra and Asset Management Ltd. done a PowerPoint presentation. The Collector instructed officials to guarantee that junctions are scientifically designed with due tabletop crossings, traffic-friendly layouts, designated spaces for high-mast lighting and postulation signals, and aesthetically developed fountains with capable supporting infrastructure.

Emphasising the request for semipermanent municipality planning, Mr. Sai Kanth Varma said roads should not beryllium dug up for astatine slightest 2 years aft construction. He directed officials to coordinate successful beforehand with departments and agencies requiring cablegram oregon inferior works and guarantee completion of underground drainage, pipelines and CCTV installations earlier road-laying works are taken up.

The Collector stressed that nary hanging wires should beryllium disposable astatine roadworthy junctions and called for azygous footpaths, greenish belts, shade-giving trees, scientifically planned thoroughfare lighting and due signage on cobblestone pathways.

Reviewing drinking h2o proviso and sanitation measures, helium asserted that not a azygous diarrhoea lawsuit should hap successful the metropolis and ordered an contiguous audit of pipelines to forestall contamination. He warned that engineering officials would beryllium held accountable for polluted h2o proviso and instructed authorities to intensify anti-larval measures, including the merchandise of gambusia food successful stagnant h2o bodies to curb mosquito breeding.