Dr. Vinod Nowal, President, BCIC said: “We express our sincerest thanks to CM for setting a clear deadline of January 15 to repair and fix potholes since PWD and BBMP have already missed the earlier deadline of December 31, 2011. This has been a long standing demand of the citizens of Bangalore which the Chamber has been expressing with the State Government.”
Mr Harish H V, Vice President said: “It is important to have good quality roads and build them such that they last for long. We need to recognize that the cost to the citizens and the government of bad roads, in terms of accidents, injuries, higher fuel cost, time and environmental, is huge and substantially higher than that the cost of building good roads”.
The Chamber on its part urges BBMP to complete the task and fulfill the Chief Minister’s decision speedily and effectively and then follow it up with repairing and relaying all roads that need repair with a clear deadline in coordinated manner with the other agencies so that we are not raising the same issue in a few months once monsoon is back. The Chamber also expressed its happiness over the State Government according permission to develop 166.91 km of State Highways at a cost of Rs 59.91 crore under State Highways Development Project for which steps would be initiated to start the work soon. The Chamber feels that this will augur well for the overall infrastructure development of the State.
Sourced From: Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC)
