Indore: Public Works Department minister Sajjan Singh Verma on Tuesday said he has got a work plan ready for ensuring that vehicles do not stop at any of signals on busy AB Road, which witnesses traffic jams due to BRTS corridor meant for i-buses. “To deal with traffic woes on busy AB Road, I have got a work plan ready.
This work plan will ensure that vehicles do not have to stop at any of the signals along 12-km of stretch of AB Road between Rajeev Gandhi Square to Niranjanpur Square,” he told reporters here. Verma said plan was prepared by senior engineers at his behest. The minister did not share the plan with reporters saying it would be first discussed at department level.
“In next 15 days, we will make presentation of work plan before departments, which are stakeholders. Plan will be executed thereafter,” he said. The minister said plan won’t cost single penny to the government. Verma, who a month ago had stated that BRTS corridor railing should be uprooted, said he gave the statement as an Indore resident and not as a minister.
About Ring Road, the minister said the government had already announced seven flyovers on Ring Road. It is believed that AB Road work plan is likely to be connected to Ring Road flyover project. Sources said the idea could be to move four-wheelers on Ring Road and keep only two-wheelers on AB Road.
Development projects
Taking a dig at 15 years of BJP rule in the state, Verma said development projects of previous government have proved troublesome. “The reason for it was that the officers would prepare plans and made ministers to announce it. Things have changed now.
Now the ministers will get the plans ready and officers will implement them,” he said. According to Verma, civic body, PWD and housing board officials will sit together to prepare plan and its execution so that there are no loopholes left. To a query, he stated that the principal secretary called union minister Nitin Gadkari’s office to seek appointment but he did not give it. To a query regarding construction of district court complex at Pipliyahana, Verma said “temple of justice” should not be built by compromising a water body.
