HYDERABAD: About 108.92 lakh sq m of main roads covering 709 km in Greater Hyderabad limits will be handed over to private agencies next week under the Comprehensive Road Maintenance Contract (CRMC) as Letter of Agreement (LoA) between Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and contract agencies has been signed for six out of the seven packages.
Under the CRMC programme, agencies will take care of Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of roads for a period of five years.
GHMC officials told Express that out of the identified 108.92 lakh sq m of roads, as many as 54.92 lakh sq m belong to Hyderabad Road Development Corporation Limited (HRDCL), 48.87 lakh sq m belong to GHMC, 2.07 lakh sq m belong to Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC), 1.47 lakh sq m to Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL), and 74,000 sq m to Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA).
