Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Sep 1: Including concreting of main roads in the city, the City Corporation has taken up works totaling to Rs 120 crore during the current year, informed mayor Ganesh Hosabettu.

Giving details at a press conference held in the city on Saturday August 30, he said that a sum of only around Rs 30 to 35 crore had been spent during the last decade, whereas the present administration will be spending Rs 120 crore in a single year.

Laying of concrete road from Hampankatta Circle to Hotel Sujata on K S Rao Road, which is being executed at a great speed, has been almost completed. The balance works on this road will be completed within the next three to four days, he revealed. The road between Hampankatta Circle to A B Shetty Circle will be completed at a cost of Rs 3.7 crore in two phases. The concreting work of KSRTC to Lalbagh Circle will commence on September 1 at a cost of Rs 70 lac and completed within a month, the mayor explained.

Kuntikan to Kavoor road four-laning work (Rs 1.95 crore) and Bejai Circle to Karnataka Polytechnic (Rs 3.40 crore) will also be taken up during the year. The four-lane concreting work of the airport road between Mary Hill to Maravoor Bridge (12.17 crore) and two-laning work between Kavoor and Maravoor (Rs 4 crore) are also being taken up, he explained.

Suratkal market will be built at a cost of Rs 5.2 crore and foundation stone will be laid for the project on Tuesday September 9. Special grant of three crore rupees for the purpose has already been released by the state government, he explained.

Construction of Bejai market, Jeppu market and flower market at car street also are on the anvil. Surveys have been completed and plans of these projects are ready, he said. The market at Urwa Stores an Central market too will witness improvements during the year, Ganesh Hosabettu narrated.