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Spillover works worth Rs. 100 crore completed

Staff Reporter

They include road repairs, says BMP Commissioner K. Jairaj

Bangalore: The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) has completed spillover works, including road repairs, worth more than Rs. 100 crore, BMP Commissioner K. Jairaj has said.

Speaking at the BMP council on Tuesday, Mr. Jairaj said that 560 works estimated at Rs. 26 crore, 160 works worth Rs. 66.9 crore and 564 works valued at Rs. 33.6 crore had been completed in the east, south and west zones of the city, respectively. He said that pending work worth Rs. 18 crore, Rs. 49 crore and Rs. 36 crore remained to be completed in the east, south and west zones, respectively. They would be completed by October 15. Spillover works are those projects for which funds have been earmarked in earlier budgets of the BMP but were not completed in that financial year. They are carried forward into the next financial year and funds allocated again for them. At the start of this financial year, the BMP had 4,711 spillover works, which required over Rs. 340.19 crore. Upset over the corporators' complaints that files were getting delayed, Mr. Jairaj said that he had directed officers to reduce the number of tables the files should pass through. He added that 390 files were pending in the east zone, 240 in the south and 272 in the west zone. When H. Ravindra, ruling party leader in the BMP Council, reiterated that complaints of corporators that new projects under this year's budget were yet to be taken up, Mr. Jairaj promised them that it would be done soon.

"Tenders for projects in the first phase will be called for on September 29 and work orders will be issued on October 11. For road asphalting, tenders will be called for in October," he said. On earlier occasions, new projects had never begun before January, he said. Mr. Jairaj told the corporators, many of whom were absent, that pending bills of contractors' up to the month of May had been cleared. The BMP had begun this financial year with pending bills of Rs. 116 crore, which had accumulated since December 2005.

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