Teams brace for Metro Rail road repairs

Each team is provided with dozers, auto trolleys, adequate quantity of wet mix macadam (WMM), shellmac and sufficient number of labourers to carry out immediate temporary road restoration works

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) and L&TMRHL have formed 10 joint teams to take care of Metro Rail corridors and work on repairing of roads on different stretches.

Each team, headed by a Deputy Executive Engineer of HMRL, is provided with dozers, auto trolleys, adequate quantity of wet mix macadam (WMM), shellmac and sufficient number of labourers to carry out immediate temporary road restoration works.

HMRL MD NVS Reddy has inspected Metro Rail stretches along with L&TMRHL MD Shivanand Nimbargi, HMRL Chief Engineer Md Ziauddin, Project Director L&TMRHL MP Naidu and senior engineers of HMRL and L&TMRHL. Since the road stretches in different parts got damaged due to heavy rainfall and inundation, as a first step, the road surface which got damaged is being scraped to remove the undulations to make the roads motorable. HMRL and L&TMRHL have drawn up action plan to improve the road surface in coordination with National Highways authorities and GHMC after stoppage of rains and drying of road surface.

Further, as instructed by the Municipal Administration Minister K Taraka Rama Rao, perennial water stagnation points and possible solutions including laying/remodelling of storm water drains, resurfacing the road with paver blocks at valley points where water accumulates during rains and other such long term measures will be planned and shared with GHMC and National Highways authorities for coordinated implementation.