To make national Capital roads potholes free, Delhi Government on Saturday launched a mega exercise to fill potholes on roads managed by its Public Works Department (PWD).
Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal in a series of tweets said it was first time that such a big scale road inspection was being done to free the PWD roads from potholes caused by rains and wear and tear.
The PWD maintains around 1,260 km roads in the city. “Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 50 ruling legislators, each accompanied by a PWD engineer will inspect 25 km of road stretch in their areas. An app will be used to locate and record the potholes and other damages, which will be repaired immediately,” said the Chief Minister.
“Some roads in the city which comes under the PWD are used by lakhs of vehicles every day. The exercise is aimed at ensuring people face no problems due to bad roads after the rains, Kejriwal said.
He said that if team consisting of an MLA and a PWD engineer finds potholes, a photo of the same will be uploaded on department's software for swift action.
On Tuesday, Kejriwal
has announced to launch the city-wide exercise from October 5 to identify potholes on roads. “It will be like physical audit of PWD's roads and we will have complete information about the current condition of city's roads. Fifty MLAs will be part of this exercise,” he had said.