Indore Mayor Malini Gaud and State urban welfare development minister Kailash Vijayvargiya in a function on Thursday inaugurated Mayor’s secretariat in the presence of senior party officials, MlAs and IMC officials. The inaugural ceremony was marked by puja and other religious ceremonies. Notable among those, who were present on the occasion, included former city mayors Krishna Murari Moghe, Umashashi Sharma, BJP MlAs Sudarshan Gupta, Mahendra Hardia, former IDA chairman Madhu Verma, BJP’s organisational secretary Shailendra Barua, senior BJP corporators Chandu Shinde, Rajendra Rathore, IMC chairman Ajay Singh Naruka among others.
Earlier in the day, Mayor laid foundation stone of a link road between Annapurna Road and Kesharbagh. This important link road, which will be completed at the cost of Rs1.50 crore, will link Annapurna road with Kesharbagh road via Dussehra Maidan. Completion of this important link road will ease traffic pressure in western part of the city to a large extent, informed IMC public works department in-charge Shankar Yadav.
He said that a sum of Rs45 crore has been allocated under Chief Minister’s Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for the construction of approach and missing link roads adding that under Approach and link Road scheme, roads with total length of 30 km would be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs240 crore.