The Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT) and the Mandya City Municipal Council (CMC) have proposed to take up developmental projects in the congested areas of the city.
To this end, the CMC has prepared a detailed project report (DPR) pertaining to various developmental schemes and submitted it to the DELT, which would be funding 60 per cent of the cost.
The CMC will bear the remaining cost of the project. In association of the directorate, the civic authority will construct a pedestrian over-bridge near the Saint John’s Church on Bengaluru-Mysuru highway; a hawkers’ zone near the Mandya Urban Development Authority layout on the Mandya-Nagamangala highway and several bus-bays, R. Prathap, Executive Engineer of the CMC, told The Hindu. The proposed over-bridge will be the first one to be constructed here. The council was aiming at improving coordination in planning and implementation of urban transport projects, N.M. Shashikumar, Commissioner of Mandya CMC, told this correspondent.
Urbanisation could become successful only with effective urban transport system. Therefore, with the help of the directorate, the CMC would improve the circles and pavements across the city, he said.
A sum of Rs. 4.82 crore would be spent on these projects.
A high-level team from DELT would visit Mandya in the first week of January to examine the feasibility of the projects, Mr. Prathap said.
