Join hands for City’s growth: CM

Join hands for City’s growth: CM
deccan Herald

Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday called upon officials and bureaucrats to look beyond changes in the administrative set-up and work towards effectively addressing Bangalore City’s infrastructure issues.

Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday called upon officials and bureaucrats to look beyond changes in the administrative set-up and work towards effectively addressing Bangalore City’s infrastructure issues. He was addressing a gathering after inaugurating a casualty block constructed by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) at the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Shivajinagar.

Mr Kumaraswamy pointed out that despite being rich in resources, Bangalore was not reaping in the benefits because of ineffective implementation of developmental schemes. “All the stakeholders in Bangalore — including the BDA, BMP and the BWSSB — should work in unison and with a vision to address public issues, irrespective of who is ruling the State.,” he said.The BDA would in the next 10 to 15 days start distributing 11,000 sites as part of the first phase of the Arkavathy Layout project. He urged the BDA to ensure sites in the layout for people from the lower strata of society. Minister for Sericulture and Small Scale Industries Katta Subramanya Naidu said the government would work towards emulating Bangalore’s IT success story in the field of medicine, and make the City the country’s medical capital. Minister for Health and Family Welfare R Ashok said plans were on to open around 275 trauma care centres across the State.

The casualty block at the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital has been built at Rs 9.8 crore. The four-floor building can accommodate 190 beds and is built on a total plinth area of nearly 5,380 sq m. On Tuesday, the chief minister also inaugurated a BDA commercial complex in HBR Layout and laid foundation stones for two underpasses — at Magadi Chord Road Junction and Ramamurthy Nagar.

Projects and features

Commercial complex at HBR Layout

Cost: Rs 3.2 crore

Status: Complete

Floor area: 5789.12 sq m

Features: Basement car parking, 31 shops

Casualty Block at Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospital

Cost: Rs 9.8 crore

Status: Complete

Plinth area: 5379.25 sq m

Features: 4 floors, 190-bed capacity, pathology lab, endoscopy and CT scans, ultra sound doppler, two operation theatres

Magadi Road — Chord Road Junction Underpass

Cost: Rs 31.86 crore

Date of completion: May 14, 2007

Length: 530.349 metres

Features: Four-lane divided carriageway, one-metre footpaths on both sides and a 0.80-metre median

Ramamurthy Nagar

Underpass

Cost: Rs 17.46 crore

Date of completion: April 17, 2007

Length: 408.55 metres

Features: Three-lane bi-directional traffic, service roads and electrical works