GBA to develop 100 major roads in Bengaluru, focusing on infrastructure, maintenance
Bengaluru: The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) will undertake a much-needed development initiative covering 100 major roads across the city, focusing on improving infrastructure, maintenance, and cleanliness.
Chief Commissioner Maheshwar Rao announced the plan following a recent review meeting with key officials, The New Indian Express reported on Friday.
Rao directed each of the five city corporations under GBA to identify 10 major roads in each of Bengaluru’s 10 zones—totalling 100 roads. The selection process will consider public feedback and key issues such as potholes, footpath conditions, bus stop and streetlight maintenance, traffic congestion, water stagnation, and garbage dumping. The responsibility for comprehensive maintenance will rest with the respective chief engineers.
Highlighting that repeated road damage is often due to uncoordinated work by multiple civic agencies, Rao stressed that no department, including BWSSB and Bescom, will be allowed to carry out works on major roads without prior GBA approval.
To ensure accountability, weekly review meetings will be chaired by the chief engineer (projects). Officials have been instructed to implement temporary fixes immediately, followed by long-term, sustainable solutions to address recurring problems.
Rao also told engineers to fill potholes on priority, especially those on Outer Ring Road (ORR).
He further directed engineers to fix damaged drainage pipes on flyovers, citing complaints of rainwater falling directly onto roads and causing deterioration. Additionally, Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) has been asked to coordinate with city corporations for intensive cleaning drives along the ORR.
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Sunetra Pawar elected as NCP's legislature party leader
Mumbai (PTI): Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar was unanimously elected as the leader of the NCP legislature party in Maharashtra on Saturday, three days after the death of her husband and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
She is set to take oath as the first woman Deputy Chief Minister of the state later in the day.
Sunetra Pawar's name as the NCP's legislature party leader was proposed by senior leader Dilip Walse Patil and seconded by Food and Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal.
She was elected during a meeting of the party's legislature wing, held at the office of late Ajit Pawar on the ground floor of the Vidhan Bhavan complex in south Mumbai.
Ajit Pawar, who was deputy chief minister and finance minister in the Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government, was killed in a plane crash in Baramati along with four others on January 28.
Sunetra Pawar paid floral tributes to a portrait of her late husband in the meeting hall. Their younger son Jay was also present.
Many ministers and legislators were teary-eyed when they entered the Vidhan Bhavan complex.
The Lok Bhavan has confirmed that the swearing-in ceremony of Sunetra Pawar as the state deputy CM will be held at 5 pm in Mumbai.
Until the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Sunetra Pawar had kept a low profile. In the Lok Sabha elections that year, she contested from Baramati as the candidate of her husband's party, but was defeated by her sister-in-law and incumbent NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule in the prestige battle.
Sunetra Pawar was subsequently elected to the Rajya Sabha.
