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MCH unveils development plans

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Feb. 11. Buoyed by the pats it received from different agencies on its functioning and the upward surge in tax collections, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) has decided to focus on improving the drainage facility, apart from allocating funds for taking up bridges and widening roads at different places in the city during the next fiscal year.

``Our focus during next year will be on tackling the problems of the common man more efficiently by streamlining the functioning,'' the Mayor, T. Krishna Reddy, and the Commissioner, Chitra Ramachandran, told a press conference organised in connection with the first anniversary of the elected body of the corporation on Tuesday.

Detailing the future plans, Ms. Ramachandran said the corporation would be spending Rs. 10 crores on improving sewerage system in 100 divisions next year. Discussions with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) were already initiated in this regard. The MCH would also take up construction of bridges at Jamai Osmania, Sanathnagar, Muslim Jung, Rajnagar and Gandhinagar and also take up construction of foot overbridges at several places.

Answering questions, she said mechanical desiltation of stormwater drains would be taken up shortly, while plans were afoot to provide long-handle brooms sticks to the cleaning staff. The MCH would also take up construction of a long flyover from Khairatabad junction to Sanathnagar, a project that the HUDA had earlier planned. But now, the MCH would take up the project on the directions of the Chief Minister.

The Commissioner also disclosed that a new system of maintaining pictorial record of construction activity would be introduced shortly. The digitised records would help check the builders from resorting to any deviations from the sanctioned plans. Similarly, efforts were on to introduce the system of preparing road history where records would be maintained about road stretches on date of laying the road, recarpetting details, etc.

Mr. Krishna Reddy said during the first year of his tenure, he had received as many as 1,410 complaints of different nature out of which 771 were already solved. He said there was lot to be done in future also. The Standing Committee Chairman, M. Madhu, was also present. A glossy report on the activities taken up by the corporation during the first year of the elected body was also released by the Mayor.

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