The Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) envisages a slew of new projects to shore up the city infrastructure in the budget for 2016-17, which was presented here on Saturday.
This includes a greenfield drinking water project at Hale Unduwadi in the KRS backwaters to cater to the future requirements of the city, for which 100 acres of land is set to be acquired, development of Outer Peripheral Road, development of 10 main arterial roads, apart from completing the pending sale of nearly 2,300 sites for the aspirants.
The MUDA budgetary estimate projects revenue of Rs. 411.38 crore against an expenditure of Rs. 410.19 crore leaving it with a surplus of Rs. 1.19 crore. The budget was presented by MUDA Commissioner M. Mahesh, who said the bulk of the revenue will be by sale of sites and the MUDA expects to sell 2,309 sites in the city, which is expected to fetch around Rs. 139.36 crore. This includes 1,764 sites in R.T. Nagar and 545 sites in Lalitadrinagar Stage I, while about Rs. 150 crore is expected through auction of corner sites.
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The sale of Civic Amenities site is expected to fetch Rs. 34 crore to the MUDA kitty. In a bid to green the city, the authority plans to plant one lakh saplings for which it has set aside Rs. 5.64 crore. Parts of Mysuru rural, which comes under the MUDA jurisdiction, will be provided with drinking water facility and UGD systems for which Rs. 25.69 crore has been allocated.
Four grade separators to ease traffic movement on the periphery of the city, five over-bridges and four road under-bridges have also been proposed, while rainwater harvesting will be made compulsory on all houses constructed on 30x40 ft sites and above, besides apartments, which will not get Completion Report (CR) if the facility was not implemented. The existing dhobi ghats at Saraswathipuram and Yadavgiri will be modernised and equipped with washing machines to mechanise the entire system for which Rs. 90 lakh has been allocated, which is in the budget against the actual cost of Rs. 1.2 crore. MUDA Chairman K.R. Mohankumar, elected representatives and officials were present.