With Rs1,550 crore investment, Punjab Government is all set to give a massive fillip to its roads having more than 35,000 kilometres network like State Highways, link roads and rural roads under rural mission.Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to accomplish re-carpeting and strengthening of existing road network in the State by the end of this year.
Sukhbir, while presiding over a high-level review meeting accompanied by PWD Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon, said that all the roads in the State would be potholes free, fully repaired and well constructed by the end of this year.He also directed that those roads, which required complete overhaul, should be reconstructed with modern techniques.
It was informed in the meeting that all rural roads would be repaired and reconstructed besides making them completely potholes free under “rural mission” at a cost of more than Rs1,550 crore.“Punjab Government has decided that construction of roads would be duly inspected by the concerned panchayats or municipal authorities to ensure quality of work. Concerned authority, under whose jurisdiction the construction of road took place, would issue a certificate to the construction agency for transparency in the work,” he said.
He added, “Only if the supervision of the work is found good, the agency would receive a certificate from the panchayats or urban local bodies.”With an aim to bring more transparency in the construction of roads, it was announced that a third party audit of road construction work would also be conducted. He said that quality compromise would never be tolerated at any cost.