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Madurai: Madurai corporation has completed relaying of 1,032 damaged roads spanning 149km. Corporation commissioner Gaurav Kumar said an administrative approval was secured for the 2025–2026 fiscal year to reconstruct 1,169 damaged roads totalling 169.43km at Rs 120.29 crore. Work on the remaining 137 roads has been sped up. To tackle heavy-traffic corridors prone to degradation, the corporation has sanctioned Rs 1.5 crore for 902 additional road patch repairs.
Tenders are likely to be announced by next week.
With the launch of the complete streets policy and other guidelines, many of the smaller streets especially in residential areas such as Sellur, SS Colony and K Pudur are being given more attention,” a senior corporation official said. “The planned roadworks targeted flood hotspots across the city.” “In the past year, the focus has been on the main roads and bus routes across the city.