70% restoration works completed: HMRL
Hyderabad, Nov 11 (INN): Almost 70% of the road restoration works taken up in the Metro Rail corridors by HMRL at a cost of about Rs.15 crore in the last few weeks have been completed, stated HMRL Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy.
Road No.36 of Jubilee Hills has been restored to a good shape with a combination of BT and paver blocks. Similarly, the bad patches in Secunderabad, Begumpet, Krishna Nagar and Jubilee Hills road No.5 areas of Metro corridor-III and Miyapur to LB Nagar in corridor-I are being repaired with BT. Further, NH authorities will take up major re-carpeting of corridor-I road from Miyapur to LB Nagar at a cost of Rs.40 Cr in the next few days, he stated.
Inspecting the ongoing cement concrete (CC) road relaying work at Lakdikapul Metro station area in a stretch of about 230 mtrs from Venkateshwara Hotel to Bharat petrol pump, he mentioned that in view of perennial water stagnation and leakages from sewer lines, storm water drains etc., a combination of CC and paver blocks road is being laid here as a permanent solution. The left side of the road (Venkateshwara Hotel side) which is low lying and prone for water logging has a total width of about 12 mtrs.
Eight metres portion of the width is being concretised with multilevel concrete layers using Vacuum Dewatered Flooring (VDF) technology. Since this area is in high density traffic zone, this technology helps quick setting of concrete with the required strength. Special curing compound is also being used here to make the newly laid CC road motorable within 7 days, thus minimising inconvenience to road users. Already 4 mtrs of CC road is laid which is opened for traffic and now another 4 mtr road width is being covered with CC.
Since multiple sewer lines, storm water lines, telephone cable conduits etc., are running below this road, they are being strengthened and the sewer and storm water drains are being desilted to avoid chokage points. For any relaying/repairs of these lines and laying of any fresh utility lines in future, the extreme end of 4 mtrs of the road will be covered with paver blocks for facilitating any such future works.
HMRL Chief Engineer Md. Ziauddin and other senior engineers of HMRL participated in the inspection.
News Posted: 11 November, 2016
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