GHMC speeds up work during lock-down

With traffic being minimal in the city due to the ongoing lockdown, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has expedited road works under the Comprehensive Road Maintenance Program (CRMP). As per the government instructions, GHMC has permitted all private agencies to complete the road repair works at the earliest. Accordingly, the agencies are taking working round the clock, making good use of the traffic-free roads. The GHMC engineering wing is extending all support to the agencies. Zonal Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, executive engineers and police officers have formed teams in different zones to monitor the ongoing works. Permission for free movement of labour, machinery, material, tankers and mixing plants has been accorded to the agencies, and they are specifically directed to ensure social distancing norms and provide masks and other protective equipment to the workers, Director, EVDM, Viswajit Kampati, who has been entrusted with the task of ensuring and monitoring free flow of machinery and vehicles carrying materials from other districts and states, said that under CRMP, GHMC has entrusted the maintenance of 709 km of main roads to agencies who will also maintain 401 road stretches for five years and take up repair works, besides beautification of footpaths, arrangement of central medians and other works.