Addressing a press meet here on Saturday, he said the road and parks will be developed for a beautiful city. Interested industrialists and banks will be invited to participate in the city’s development and they will be involved in upkeep and maintenance of such development roads/parks.

He said the MCC will enter into an MoU with interested industrialists and banks on owning parks/roads. A detailed agreement has been drafted after checking all legal points so that there should not be any complications in future, he said.

He said once an organisation comes forward to own a road, then they will have to maintain the road, medians, footpath, plants on the medians especially manuring them and watering them, all the traffic management aspects like zeebra crossing, fixing cat eyes wherever it is necessary, rubberised humps, laying bus bays, street light maintenance etc.

If an organisation owns a road, then they can install the signboards of their company on either side of the road for every 250 metres. The size of the sign board will be decided by executive engineer depending on the visibility for the traffic. The term for the project is three years.

The Commissioner said depending on the SR rate, the estimate cost for the yearly maintenance of the road and parks have been fixed. For the maintenance of the park, for one acre, the annual maintenance will be Rs 2.91 lakh.

Roads

The list of roads to be maintained for the development of roads are: Hampankatta junction to A B Shetty; Clock tower circle-Rao and Rao Circle; A B Shetty to Hamilton Circle and Hamilton Circle to Rao and Rao Circle; Hampankatta Junction to Jyothi (via Bavutagudda); Hampankatta Junction to Jyothi (via Balmatta); Jyothi Junction to Karavali Circle (via Collector’s gate road); Karavali Circle to Pumpwell Circle; P V S Junction to Ladyhill Circle; Ladyhill Circle to Urwa store; Urwa store to Kottara Chowki; Ladyhill Circle to Mannagudda; K P T Junction to Mary Hill; Mary Hill to Bondel Junction; Bondel Junction to Marakada; Hampankatta Junction to PVS; Karavali Circle to Kankanady Junction; Bunts Hostel Junction to PVS Junction; Ballalbagh Junction to Mannagudda; Kuloor Junction to Kavoor Junction; KSRTC to Kuntikana; Lalbagh to Bejai Junction and Bejai to Basaveshwara Circle.

Parks

The parks to be maintained include Mahatma Gandhi Park at Mannagudda; Children’s Park near Hamilton Circle; Mallikatte Park near Mallikatte Junction; Bhararth Maidan Park near Jeppu Market and S L Mathias Park near Melina Mogeru, Attavar.

Mayor Praveen, Deputy Mayor Geetha Nayak and Opposition leader Lancelot Pinto were present.

SAS tax covers 93.63 pc area

The MCC Commissioner said that the MCC has achieved 93.63 per cent success in the collection of SAS tax. The demand was Rs 27.58 crore for 2010-11. The MCC was able to collect Rs 25.85 crore so far. Though the government has directed the MCC to revise SAS tax once in three months, it will be considered.