Let’s have pothole free roads: CM YS Jagan

By Our Special Correspondent

The state government has started laying focus on the development of roads and making them pothole free. At a review meeting on Urban Development, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy told the authorities to take up road repair works in corporations and municipalities on priority basis and take pictures before and after restoring the roads, like Nadu-Nedu. The officials assured the CM to complete all the repair works by the end of June.

Speaking at a review meeting on municipal administration and urban development on Monday, he said all the households should be provided drinking water by closely monitoring the supply on a daily basis. The officials should focus on resolving public grievances promptly, he said.

The authorities said that the construction of quarters for MLAs, MLCs, and IAS officers was also underway. Another issue that figured during the meeting was to provide access to drinking water supply daily to every household. He said that steps should be taken to have one MIG layout in each assembly constituency and make them available for the public with clear titles duly following all the stipulated rules and regulations. Under the Clean Andhra Pradesh initiative, the Chief Minister emphasized on creating awareness among people on wet, dry and hazardous waste by taking up the door-to-door campaign. In all, 6,791 acres of land has been identified in 82 urban constituencies so far for the purpose of housing. Development of layouts is under progress in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Guntur, Kadapa, Kurnool, Sri Sathya Sai and Tirupati districts. He said the government has taken up development of infrastructure in a big way to shape them as colonies. In the last three years, `5,500 crore has been spent on TIDCO houses. The officials should lay emphasis on environment protection in designing the project, he said, seeking details of development works taken up in Amaravati capital region.

He also emphasized on setting up Jagananna Mahila Marts to empower women self-help groups. He said that adequate assistance from the government should be provided which should include good buildings, he added. The officials informed him that 1.12 crore dustbins have been distributed to households so far for garbage collection and 8 lakh more bins will be provided by May 22. Also, 2,426 autos are engaged in the Clean Andhra Pradesh initiative. As many as 1,123 e-autos will be available by June and the rest are expected to join the fleet by the end of this year, they explained.