Municipal Corporation Gurugram to develop five roads as model roads

21 Oct 2021 CW Team

The Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG) will develop five roads of each ward into model roads later.

As per the development project, they plan to set up footpaths, chairs, benches and plant trees on these roads.

In ward-19, these five roads comprise the Mother Dairy to Hevo Apartments, Skoda Service Centre to Market, former Minister Rao Dharampal's house to Jharsa Road, service road of NH-48 to Galaxy Hotel in Sector-15 Part-2 and from Civil Lines police station to Jharsa Dam.

The roads' length would range from 800 m to two km. The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has proposed to spend approximately Rs 70 lakh on these roads.

The MCG authorities told the media that the roads have not yet been chosen in the rest of the wards. The councillors of the ward have been asked for a list. After receiving the list, the engineering wing of the MCG, along with the local councillor examines the roads. Work will commence after making its action strategy.

Presently, five roads in ward-19 have been selected to be made the model roads.

An MCG official told the media that five roads would be chosen from all the wards later. The roads will be finalised after meeting the Executive Engineer concerning this.

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Also read: BMC floats Rs 1,000 cr tender for strengthening roads in round 2

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