Even after missing deadlines on several occasions, the department concerned has failed to repair the roads in the capital city.
Additionally, residents lamented that the recently constructed roads were repaired hastily and could give up before its stipulate time. The roads that were badly excavated for laying potable water pipelines and sewage lines across the capital city were repaired by the nodal agencies, two months back. However, residents claim that repairing of roads would not be of much beneficial for the department and will damage before its stipulated time. The department concerned is yet to take steps to repair few roads in the colonies in the capital city.
Among the worst-affected roads are: East Patel Nagar, Raipur Road, Sanjay Colony, Police line (Race Course), Suman Nagar, Vyomprasath, GMS Road, Sanjay Colony, Nai Basti, Shriram Puram, Shastri Nagar, Shanti Vihar etc.
The work of repairing roads across the State was hampered due to the inclement weather that has been witnessing for the last few days. lack of coordination among different Government departments is the major cause of concern as newly constructed and repaired roads is normally dig up other Government agencies in the name of completing other beneficiary projects.
The quality of the recently repaired roads after the completion of laying the sewage line across the capital city could be easily gauzed by the fact that the stretch of road had sunken in the Defence Colony. One of the department sources from PWD who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that contractors have been regularly instructed to complete all the pending projects in the given time frame.
He said that excavated roads will be immediately repaired once all the pending projects are completed. He also ruled out the use of sub-standard material while repairing the roads in the capital city and further assured that the strict departmental action would be surely taken against those contractors, who fail to meet with the deadline.
He further claimed that stern instructions have been already issued to carry repair works on war footing in order to avoid inconvenience to the commuters.