CRMP proposals run in a loop, whereas metropolis roads flip from unhealthy to worse

The Comprehensive Road Maintenance Programme (CRMP), which had seen efficient upkeep of town roads for 5 years ending 2025, doesn’t appear to discover a method out of the drafting board for its second section regardless of heavy harm to the roads throughout present monsoons.

Revisions after revisions are delaying the programme which seeks at hand over the upkeep of sure main street stretches to personal businesses for 5 years.

Initially launched in 2020 in the course of the BRS regime, CRMP, throughout its first section, coated over 800 kilometres of main street size at a price of ₹1,300 crore. Though estimated to value ₹1827 crore, a number of elements which had been a part of the settlement had been later eliminated attributable to reluctance of the businesses, bringing down the price. Instead of them, mechanical street sweeping was launched as a sole further element.

However, for Phase-II, the elements which had been eliminated earlier, had been added once more, along with further street size. A complete 1,142 kilometres of main roads and strategy roads numbering 934 had been a part of the package deal, with an estimated value of a whopping ₹3,825 crore. The further elements apart from street upkeep had been building of storm water drains, deployment of monsoon emergency groups, upkeep of greenery, and de-silting of the storm water drains.

While the primary section was fully financed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation by means of borrowings, for the second section, the proposals had been despatched to the federal government in search of funding. Caught in extreme monetary disaster after change of regime in 2023 elections, the State authorities was not in any temper to half with the funding required for the programme, prompting GHMC to revise the proposals.

Accordingly, shorn of all the extra elements, proposals for naked street upkeep had been ready with an estimated value element of ₹2,828 crore.

Members of the GHMC’s standing committee, when introduced with the revised proposals, had been reportedly not happy with removing of mechanical sweeping, which concerned hiring of mechanised street sweeping autos.

Upon insistence of the standing committee, the GHMC has ready one other set of proposals, growing the price by ₹317 crore for street sweeping. They shall be despatched to the federal government for approval, officers knowledgeable.