Mangaluru : Deputy Commissioner K.G. Jagadeesha on Saturday instructed the commissioner of the corporation, Mohammed Nazir, to sort out the issues with in a month and complete the pending road and footpath projects at the earliest.

At a meeting to review the progress of development works of the civic body, the Deputy Commissioner asked the commissioner to convene a meeting of private land owners whose land was required for road and footpath projects. The land owners should be apprised about the projects being taken up and why their land was required. If required, affidavit could be taken from land owners so that they could not refuse to part with the land when implementing the project.

He said that wherever his intervention was required to sort out land issues, he would do it.

While reviewing each of the projects, the Deputy Commissioner found that some of them were pending since 2011.

The Deputy Commissioner said that if people at a particular locality objected to road-widening or footpath projects by refusing to part with the land, funds reserved for those projects could be diverted for other projects.

Mr. Jagadeesha said that sand was available for road concrete and other development works of the corporation.

He asked the corporation engineers to contact the Public Works Department for lifting sand from stock.

K.S. Linge Gowda, Executive Engineer, told the meeting that the Car Street-Durga Mahal Road widening and upgrading project would be over by March-end next except a bridge at Kudroli. The new bridge would be ready by May next, he said.