Hyderabad, January 01: Officials of various departments on Friday submitted their action plans for development of Greater Hyderabad within 100 days. The chief minister has decided to supervise these programmes personally by visiting each of the 24 Assembly constituencies once in two or three days.
At a three-hour meeting with various departments here, Kiran Kumar Reddy directed the officials to come up with action plans to bring about visible changes within 100 days.
“We should not plan what we cannot achieve. At the end of 100 days, there should be a visible change,” he told officials.
To bring credibility to the efforts, officials were directed to advertise the action plans in advance through print and electronic media to inform the public.
Sanitation, road-widening, regular drinking water supply, identification and repairing of waterlogged roads, housing programmes will be of top priority. The chief minister asked the officials to ensure that roads in layouts being approved in panchayat areas in GHMC limits should be laid keeping in view the future needs. He suggested that RT C authorities run mini- buses in the Old City. Officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) were asked to find a permanent solution to the water contamination problem and come up with necessary plans for implementing the third phase of the Krishna water supply programme.
GHMC officials will spend Rs135 crore on development of roads and another Rs13.5 crore on sidewalks, painting the curbs and medians, removing overhanging wires and improving major junctions. All bins will be cleared daily and roads cleaned by deploying 150 more units. By end-January, the GHMC will roll out offsite real time (OSRT ) monitoring system to monitor working of nearly 3.4 lakh streetlights. Similarly, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) will take up improvement of parks, cleaning of the Hussainsagar and beautification of various roads among other programmes.
The Central Power Distribution Company Limited (CPDCL) will improve power supply in the next 100 days apart from fixing loose electric wires which are posing threat to people, strengthening sub-stations, call centres and also providing quality power. Traffic police are mulling over improving the traffic conditions by increasing the number of traffic signals across the city.
–Agencies