The Lok Satta district unit has urged Special Secretary to Chief Minister Smitha Sabharwal to take appropriate measures to rectify the execution of work on beautification of R&B roads in the town. It said the project implementation was progressing at a snail’s pace and in an unscientific manner causing serious loss to the exchequer.
In a letter addressed to Ms. Smitha on Thursday, Lok Satta district president N. Srinivas and general secretary Prakash Holla said that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had released more than ₹ 100 crore for the beautification of the 14.5-km R&B roads during his maiden visit in 2014.
Alleging large-scale irregularities in the execution of the work, Lok Satta said that the drains and ducts were constructed in an unscientific manner. The footpaths and dividers were constructed with poor quality, they said and added that the rainwater would enter the drains and clog the roads. They urged the Government to conduct a vigilance inquiry into the quality of R&B road work.
Similarly, they recollected that as the then collector of the district she had allocated parking zones in the town. But, now there are no parking zones and the vendors have literally encroached all the roads and footpaths causing inconvenience to the road users. If this is the situation, how would the MCK get the Smart city status, they questioned.
Alleging that the Revenue Department officials in collusion with the land grabbers were encroaching upon the Government lands in the town, the Lok Satta urged the Government to give instructions to revenue officials to put a check on encroachment of government lands. They also urged the Government to save the municipal parks from encroachers.