All major city roads to have signboards

Though Hyderabad has grown by leaps and bounds in the last 25 years, the city does not have proper signage which is important for any big city to provide information to its residents and visitors.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation decided to instal signboards along the city’s major roads, corridors and sub-arterial roads within its limits.

It will engage the services of consultants for survey, identification of locations with designs, drawings, preparation of estimates and BOQs etc, for all types of signage such as mandatory, cautionary and informatory on roads other than the 17 CoP Corridors which will be used by the Indian and foreign delegates attending the biodiversity conference from October 1 to 19. The corporation has invited  expression of interest from bidders.

In the first phase the GHMC has taken up the work on road signs and beautification on the 17 CoP Corridors at a cost of `9.89 crore. The second phase of signage work on other roads will be taken up in October at a cost of about `100 crore for which tenders were invited a few days ago.

Speaking to Express, GHMC officials said the corporation had been taking up important urban infrastructure development initiatives for an `integrated development’ of the city. They said the scope of work includes carrying out road inventory survey, planning, designing, preparation of drawings, identification of locations, list of locations including maps along the corridors locating traffic signs of mandatory, cautionary and informatory as per the Indian Road Congress norms and structural designs and preparation of estimates as per standards.

The project will be completed in a month from the date of agreement between the GHMC and the consultants. The consultants or the agencies should quote their consultancy amount per one unit of kilometre length of road proposed for signs and per location,  traffic junction, amount in figures and words. The report should contain field reconnaissance survey note, maps showing the roads identified for the work, methodology, work programme, criteria as per IRC 67-2010 for planning traffic signage, etc.

The draft report should contain the road inventory survey data ie, identifying the number of lanes along the corridors and at junctions, major junctions, crossroads, lists with locations, maps locating the traffic signs as per IRC guidelines, quantities, rate analysis for all the works as per current standard schedule of rates/market rates wherever applicable, cost estimates, etc.