The city could be thrown into further traffic chaos as the civic authority is preparing to white-top the roads yet to be worked on in phases 1 and 2.
At a recent meeting, BBMP commissioner B H Anil Kumar asked officials of the Project Central Department — the nodal department for the white-topping project — to complete the remaining work in a year.
“Since the work order for white-topping of phases 1 and 2 have already been issued, we have been instructed to complete the remaining work in a year,” N Ramesh, chief engineer at BBMP’s Project Central, told DH.
The civic body’s records show that it was awarded white-topping works in 2017. It should have covered about 95 kilometres of different stretches of roads in phase 1, costing Rs 800 crore, while phase 2 should have covered 63 kilometres at a cost of Rs 690 crore.
