‘Amritsar MC carried out development works even during lockdown’

Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 25

The civil wing of the Municipal Corporation floated a tender for the recarpeting of various roads in the city at a cost of Rs 11.56 crore in its first phase. The construction of a number of roads in all the constituencies has aslo been started. While in the second phase, tenders of Rs 8.44 crore are being floated to recarpet the remaining roads of the holy city.

Rs15.35 cr spent in 1st phase: MC Commissioner

According to the MC Commissioner, in the first phase, MC spent Rs15.35 crore on the development of various roads and streets of the city under the Punjab Environmental Improvement Program project. In the second phase, Rs48.26 crore would be spend on the development works.

Disclosing this here today, Commissioner Municipal Corporation Komal Mittal said the Municipal Corporation had carried out rapid development works even during the lock down and no stagnation has been reported in the development works.

She said the Civil Department of the MC had recently issued tenders worth Rs 30 crore for the development of various wards including construction of streets, drains, roads and development of parks. Mittal stated that more than 80 percent of these works have been completed and the rest are in progress.

Komal Mittal said in the first phase, MC spent Rs 15.35 crore on the development of various roads and streets of the city under the Punjab Environmental Improvement Program project. In second phase Rs 48.26 crore would be spend on the development works. She said that similarly under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation the parks at Chheharta Sahib, Chamrang Road, Garden Colony, Gurnam Nagar and Katra Moti Ram would be developed at a cost of Rs 113.33 lakh.

Mittal stated that the area around the Gurdwaras related to ninth Sikh Guru would be devolped on the occasion of the 400th birth anniversary of Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji. She said for the development of two holy Gurdwaras of Amritsar including Guru Ka Mahal and Gurdwara Kotha Sahib Valla, a tender of Rs 2.55 crore has been floated.