GBA Chief Commissioner Maheshwar Rao at Wednesday's virtual meeting with the five City Corporations on pothole filling. Photo: GBA
Bengaluru: Utility agencies that dig up newly asphalted roads without the City Corporation’s prior permission must be fined, Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) Chief Commissioner Maheshwar Rao has directed. If BESCOM, BWSSB or any other department or agency does so, penalties must be imposed, and officials have been told not to allow any road excavation without proper authorisation.
The direction came at a virtual meeting on Wednesday with officials of all five City Corporations on filling potholes. Maheshwar Rao instructed them to identify and promptly fill potholes on major roads, including arterial and sub-arterial roads, in their jurisdictions. B-SMILE officials were told to ensure that roads where white-topping works are under way or proposed have no potholes, and to complete those works quickly without causing inconvenience to vehicular movement.
On roads under the Defect Liability Period (DLP), contractors must carry out pothole repairs. The City Corporations are to immediately fill potholes on all other roads, except those taken up for white-topping and those under the DLP.
Senior officials of each City Corporation must personally inspect the roads and take immediate steps to fill potholes, and must update the details in the software after completing the work.
Other issues taken up: on water leakage from a BWSSB pipeline on Immadihalli Road along the Outer Ring Road, officials were told to discuss it with the concerned authorities and carry out immediate repairs. Officials were also told to conduct a spot inspection and resolve waste-related issues along the roadside and surrounding areas of Attiguppe.
City Corporation Commissioners Ramesh D.S., Pommala Sunil Kumar, Shilpa Nag and Ramesh K.N., B-SMILE CEO Nithish, Additional Commissioners Kavitha Rajaram, Lokhande Snehal Sudhakar, Mona Raut and Venkatachalapathy, Chief Engineers, Executive Engineers and B-SMILE officials attended.
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