Repair work on 1,120 km of major roads completed, 224 km work remains: Gaurav Gupta
BENGALURU:
Despite Bengaluru city witnessing extremely heavy rains in the last one week, the BBMP administration has soldiered on with its pothole-repair work and has successfully turned a 1,120-km length of city roads pothole- free.
BBMP Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta, who is personally monitoring the pothole-filling process, conducted a 3-hour-long meeting of engineers from the Road Infrastructure division and the Projects division on Monday night.
At the meeting, which ended at 11.30 pm, the engineers informed Gupta that most of the roads have been made motorable and only 224 km of roads are left, which is expected to be completed in the next couple of days.
“The BBMP Road Infrastructure division has a total number of 470 roads which have a length of 1,344 km, out of which 385 roads having a length of 1,120 km have been made free from potholes and all the bad stretches have been attended to,” said Gupta on Tuesday while speaking to the media.
The Chief Commissioner said that work on the remaining 85 roads (224 km long), including white topping, and Tender Sure and Smart City roads are in progress.
Tender process
Gupta said, “The tender process is underway to carry out repair work on the roads cut by the Water Board. We have invited tenders to repair such road-cut works and once the tender process is completed, repair work will be carried out.”
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