CMCs’ infrastructure will be improved, reiterates Dharam

CMCs’ infrastructure will be improved, reiterates Dharam
Deccan Herald

The CM said that BDA would be implementing a project to pump out excess water directly to water bodies and the BDA chairman concurred.

Chief Minister Dharam Singh on Monday reiterated that the government was committed to improving the civic infrastructure in the seven City Municipal Councils (CMCs) adjoining Bangalore.

He was speaking to press persons after an inspection tour of rain affected areas in the city prominent among which was the Puttenahalli Lake area under Bommanahalli CMC and Pai Layout off Old Madras Road under KR Puram CMC. With specific reference to water logging in many low-lying residential areas, the chief minister said that the BDA will be implementing a project whereby excess water in such conditions can be directly pumped into their destination water bodies like the Benniganahalli lake in case of Pai Layout area.

Yet to happen

Cost estimate has not been done and the project is in the consultation stage, explained BDA Chairman M N Vidyashankar.

The minister observed that Rs 1,000 crore worth infrastructure development works have already been sanctioned for the CMCs. He was referring to the World Bank projects - Rs 350 crore for Cauvery drinking water supply, Rs 400 crore for underground drainage and Rs 250 crore for road restoration. These works are long pending issues of the CMCs, he noted.

WHAT PEOPLE ENDURED

On Monday morning, a Deccan Herald team on inspection was witness to some woes the rain wrought on Bangaloreans.

Airport Road was spotted with puddles and smarted a traffic crawl all way from Domlur inner ring road junction to HAL Helicopter Division, near Marathahalli bridge. A 10.30 am among the honking and piling mass of vehicles was also a school bus with young ones on board. School begins at 10 am, his pick up of students from the Indiranagar area starts at 8.30 am said the driver confirming that some of those young ones on way to school had already spent nearly two hours bus-borne. According to the driver their school was still five miles away.

At HAL II Stage and Kalappa Layout meanwhile, some children were off from school on account of Teacher’s Day. They were helping their elders in clearing the mess rain waters had brought home.