Siddaramaiah gets first-hand information on projects

MYSURU: When chief minister Siddaramaiah started his city tour to inspect the ongoing development projects on Wednesday, the official machinery was not sure whether he will visit all the sites they had listed. The list had nine spots for him to visit and make an on-the-spot assessment.
Siddaramaiah, however, visited 11 project sites, got updates from the officials about their progress and set deadlines for their completion.There is more: The chief minister will come back and repeat the exercise before Dasara festival in a move to force the officials to meet the deadlines he had set. Dasara festival will start in mid-October.
The city tour by Siddaramaiah stretched for over three hours when he criss-crossed the city, visiting the project sites and gathering information from the officials concerned. He also suggested them solutions for some problems. Like when he got to know that acquisition of land is delaying completion of six-laning the Outer Ring Road, he asked Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) officials to reach out to land owners rather than continuing the legal battle.
Starting his tour of the city at 9.50am, the chief minister, accompanied by district minister V Srinivas Prasad and a bunch of senior officials, travelled in two Volvo buses. They visited Hardinge Circle, Town Hall, Devaraja Market area, PK Sanatorium and APMC yard in Bandipalya, where Muda is constructing the Outer Ring Road.
This is for the first time that Siddaramaiah inspected the development projects at his hometown. He was calm and composed and focused. When the entourage was passing in front of People's Park, he noticed that a part of the open space was encroached. He sought information and ordered its clearance. "Take police protection and remove it," he stated.
At the sanatorium campus, where a unit of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research is being built, the officials showed him the designs and explained the project. At Town Hall, he went to the cellar of the under-construction multi-level parking lot, while at Sayyaji Rao Road, he crossed the busy stretch to inspect the construction of Raja Marga.