Hyderabad, April 11: With the deadline for the 100-day programme passed on April 8, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has failed to achieve the target, as more than 400 sanctioned works are yet to be completed.
Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s 100-day mission, started on January 1 with much fanfare, was to bring visible changes in city’s civic infrastructure like roads and sidewalks, sanitation and traffic among others.
Before launch of the programme, the chief minister had clearly told officials that he wanted results and not just promises. However, it looks like most of the work has again remained on paper.
The recent rift between GHMC officials and corporators, leading to GHMC commissioner Sameer Sharma walking out of the general body meeting, has only added to the problem.
With employees threatening to continue their pen-down strike in protest, the works in different stages of progress are likely to suffer further.
GHMC had sanctioned as many as 1,386 works but only 972 works have been completed, leaving around 414 yet to be completed.
Speaking to Express, GHMC officials said sanctioned works include construction of concrete cement (CC) roads (837 works costing Rs 63.46 crore), black tar (BT) roads (384 works costing Rs 56.91 crore) and sidewalks (165 works costing Rs 10.85 crore).
However, out of these, GHMC has completed only 604 CC roads (Rs 46.15 crore), 274 BT roads (Rs 39.72 crore) and 94 sidewalks (Rs 5.35 crore).
Officials said works could not be completed on time because of the model code of conduct in force during the MLC elections and the non-cooperation movement by Telangana officers and employees.
—Agencies