Karnal MC to take up Rs25-cr works before poll

Parveen Arora
Tribune News Service
Karnal, June 18

Eyeing the Assembly poll, the Karnal Municipal Corporation (KMC) will spend Rs 25 crore on the development of all 20 wards.

Mayor Renu Bala Gupta and Commissioner Rajiv Mehta, along with the councillors concerned, are visiting the wards to know the problems being faced by residents and incomplete development works. She said their priorities are better road network, street lights, parks, open air gyms, sewerage and storm water drains in all the wards.

“Our focus is inclusive development of all 20 wards. We are reaching out to the people to know their grievances, so that those could be addressed before the imposition of the poll code,” said the Mayor. “I have also asked the councillors to make a list of the development works which are yet to be done at the earliest,” she added.

The Mayor said that in ward-7, a stretch of road between Maharana Partap Chowk and Tau Devi Lal Chowk would be recarpeted along with beautification of the median. In ward-16, a road connecting Hansi road with Shiv Colony after crossing the railway under-bridge (RUB) would also be constructed. In ward-20, an underpass on NH-44 for residents of Uchana would also be constructed, she added.

Similarly, all roads of the housing board in ward-10 would be recarpeted. In ward-1, interlocking tiles would be laid in all streets of Basant Vihar, the Mayor said.

The KMC will also install 20 more tube wells in different wards and colonies of the city.