The recently patchwork done by the department concerned have started giving up before its stipulated time frame and has caused huge inconvenience to the commuters to the capital city.
However, the department officials claimed that the roads would be repaired once the weather turns normal in the coming days.
Although the officials claimed that out of the 42 damaged and block roads, 34 were declared open for the vehicular flow in the district. Among the worst affected block in Dehradun district is Chakrata where eight connecting roads are still reported to be blocked after it was wrecked by the landslides.
One of the biggest worries of the PWD is rough weather conditions in the entire state that has been department’s efforts for resuming the vehicular flow of traffic in the fringe parts of the State. Among the worst affected route is Kimadi-Tunu-lambhidhar, Maaldevta-Dhutto, Musandwala, Timli, Bhanswala,Sahiya,Rangadwala, Sarona,Thayud etc. are affected.
Despite the fact that one month has passed since the disaster struck Uttarakhand, the state department concerned is yet to initiate concrete steps for declaring road open for the vehicular flow of traffic.
It is also noteworthy that recently done patchwork by the department has started giving away after witnessing few couple of showers.
Several deep potholes have emerged on EC road, Dl road, Old Dalanwala, Saharanpur road, Haridwar road, Haridwar by-pass road, Raipur road,
Indira Nagar Colony, Shastardhara road, Prince Chowk, Nalapaani road, ladpur etc. and the department is yet to introduce effective measures to do patchwork for providing pothole free roads to the residents.
One of the department sources who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that every possible step has been introduced by the department for repairing the damaged connecting routes in the district. He further told that the repairing of roads would be started once again after improves in the near future.
He also ruled out the use of inferior quality materials while recently repaired roads in the stretch of capital city.