Fast growing Mysore, both in terms of size and number of vehicles, will have five subways to ease the traffic flow planned under the Rs 100 crore special grant of the state government made for the development of the heritage city.
Chief minister BS Yeddyurappa will lay the foundation for the five sub-ways and 119 other development works, majority being tarring of the roads, on February 13.
According to Mysore district in-charge minister Shobha Karandlaje, each subway will cost Rs 1 crore for which tenders have already been invited and the work will be completed in 10 days from the date of acceptance of the tenders in about 20 days. The city’s Dasara procession route, the Sayaji Rao Road, alone will have four subways, including three at the KR Circle.
While one subway is planned on the east of the Albert Victor Road, the second would come up on the southern side and the third on the northern side of the KR Circle. The fourth on the Sayaji Rao Road is proposed at the junction of Dhanvantri Road, near the KR Hospital. The main entrance of the palace (Jayamarthanda gate) to the Dasara exhibition entrance gate in Doddakere will also have a subway.
After inspecting the proposed project sites, Karandlaje told reporters that the chief minister would inaugurate the renovated KR Hospital at a cost of Rs 3 crore by the Mysore Urban Development Authority. The in- and outpatient departments have been renovated and the control room has been refurbished. Efforts were on to set up a dialysis centre and branches of the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology and the Kidwai Institute of Oncology.
Road bridges at Rana Pratap Simha Circle, near Karanji Tank, improvement of Hardinge Circle and construction of a road bridge, improvement of the Chamaraja Double Road, the road linking T Narasipur Road up to Somasundaram Road, New Kantharaja Urs Road, Narayana Sastry Road, beautification of the Vani Vilasa Road and Mahatma Gandhi Road, and installation of a statue of the Vijayanagar king, Krishnadevaraya at Vijayanagar Extension are some other major components under the grant.