Chief Minister seeks vision document on roads

October 19, 2016 12:00 am | Updated December 01, 2016 06:48 pm IST - HYDERABAD:

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the Roads and Buildings officials to take up a comprehensive study on various aspects of roads in the State, including national and state highways, and prepare a Vision document about the same.

Expressing anguish at the number of deaths due to road accidents on a regular basis at a review meeting at his camp office here on Tuesday, Mr. Rao asked the officials to study the condition of the roads, devise programmes required to improve the road network, identify roads to be built through Central schemes and list measures to lay roads that can withstand adverse climate conditions.

Mr. Rao suggested re-laying of the roads in a straight line correcting the steep turns, to avoid accidents. Bypass roads should be built so that the national and State highways steer clear of towns and large villages.

He asked officials for proposals on road under-bridges, road over-bridges, culverts, causeways and underpasses to be built on highways, and their phase-wise construction incorporated in the vision document.

Special attention should be paid to areas where roads are more prone to damage through rains and water logging.

Mr.Rao asked the officials to study the modern technology and methods adopted by European countries and the USA towards this direction.

He asked officials to immediately start the works of Regional Ring Road outside the Outer Ring Road, for a length of 330 kilometres, and to prepare an action plan for completion of works within two years.

Observing that the Detailed Project Reports are time consuming, he asked officials to divide the work into packages if need be, so that the time taken for each DPR is reduced.

Deputy Chief Minister Mohd. Mahmood Ali, Ministers Tummala Nageshwara Rao and Ch.Laxma Reddy, besides officials from the department participated in the meeting.

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.