Coimbatore Corporation has asked the State Government for money to repair roads, provide streetlights and other basic amenities.
Mayor S.M. Velusamy told The Hindu that the civic body had sought Rs. 30.73 crore for taking up work of permanent nature and over Rs. 11 crore to take up work of temporary nature.
The civic body had sought the money to repair roads, drains and sewers damaged in the recent rain, lay new roads, strengthen tanks and install new street lights, said Commissioner T.K. Ponnusamy.
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During the rains, the Corporation kept sending daily reports to the Commissioner for Municipal Administration on the extent of damages to roads, tanks, sewers and the money needed to repair those. The money the Corporation had asked was only the sum of the cost needed to offset damages, sent in the daily reports.
He said the civic body had identified road stretches measuring 48 km for repair at Rs. 5.18 crore, storm water drain stretches measuring 75.16 km for repair at Rs. 4.64 crore and 4.8 km water supply pipeline for repair at Rs. 11 lakh.
It had also proposed replacement and repair of 24 street lights at Rs. 21 lakh and strengthening of bunds of water tanks at Rs. 91 lakh. In all, the civic body had asked for over Rs. 11 crore for the aforementioned works, classified temporary in nature.
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Mr. Ponnusamy said the demand for Rs. 30.73 crore included new roads for 64.8 km, drain for 9.7 km, water supply pipeline for 18 km, 2,408 street lights and also strengthening bunds of tanks.
The Corporation identified the roads, drains and street lights at a meeting Mr. Velusamy and Mr. Ponnusamy had with engineers a couple of days ago.
At the meeting, they asked the engineers to prepare estimates at the earliest.