MCG marks 5 roads for beautification

Following directions by Haryana CM

November 16, 2018 02:11 am | Updated 02:11 am IST - GURUGRAM

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has decided to take up five major roads in the city for development and beautification.

The work has been taken up at the directions of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

The five roads short-listed for the beautification work are HUDA City Center to Hero Honda Chowk via Subhash Chowk, Old Railway Road (Rajiv Chowk to Railway Station via Kabir Bhawan), New Railway road (Jharsa Chowk to Sec. 4-7 Chowk), Mehrauli-Gurugram Road (Mahavir Chowk to IFFCO Chowk) and Laxman Vihar-Sector 4 dividing road to Sector 9-9A.

The Horticulture Wing, Development Division, Electrical Division, Enforcement Wing and Sanitation Wing of the MCG will be involved in the work.

The Horticulture Wing will be responsible for plantation and grass implantation on road sides, central verge and other available spaces; placement of planters and street furniture such as benches.

Awareness messages

The MCG’s Development Division will put no parking signages and other signages for schools, hospitals and no honking zones; develop roadside parking areas; fill potholes and paint road marking and zebra crossing.

The Electrical Division will ensure proper lighting through street lights, fixing of signal lights, blinkers; public announcement system at signal lights through police department, closed-circuit television cameras through GMDA and free Wi-Fi zones and public awareness messages through LED.

Similarly, the job of enforcement wing is to mark no parking zones with signages, ensure crane deployment for the removal of haphazardly parked vehicles, make sure that there should be no parking on carriage way, remove encroachment and identify parking area on vacant private and government land.

The sanitation wing will ensure sweeping of all five roads at night and providing of litter bins and public toilets.

The executive engineers will ensure the execution of development work on the roads in their respective divisions. There will be a Nodal Officer for each road.

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