Deccan Chronicle: Visakhapatnam: Tuesday, June 12, 2012.
The Centrally-sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru Natio-nal Urban Renewal Missi-on (JNNURM) expired this year, but many projects that were sponsored under the scheme have not yet been completed. Projects like the bus rapid transit system (BRTS), flyover, underground drainage, 24x7 drinking water sch-eme, housing, etc. have not yet seen the light of day.
The Centrally-sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru Natio-nal Urban Renewal Missi-on (JNNURM) expired this year, but many projects that were sponsored under the scheme have not yet been completed. Projects like the bus rapid transit system (BRTS), flyover, underground drainage, 24x7 drinking water sch-eme, housing, etc. have not yet seen the light of day.
While admitting tardy progress of projects under JNNURM, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) officials maintained that they had already appealed to the Centre to extend the JNNURM term upto two years at least, to complete all pending projects by 2014, and the Centre had extended its duration up to 2014.
“Nine projects at a cost of Rs.600 crore were completed in the past five years. Anot-her 11 at a cost of Rs.1,200 cro-re are under progress and likely to be completed by 2013 or 2014,” GVMC chief engineer Jayaram Reddy told this correspondent.
According to information received from the GVMC th-rough the RTI Act, P. Srini-vasu, secretary of the Asso-ciation for Regional Tribal Development (Urban Wing), GVMC, said they could har-dly complete works sanctioned under the JNNURM.
Underground drainage was 75 per cent done while 66 per cent of flyover project from Vemana Mandir to the railway station was completed. Another much-awaited project, the BRTS of the Pendurty transit corridor has seen only 62 per cent of works.
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