The State Urban Development department is on mission to fill potholes on roads battered by recent rains to make roads motorable ahead of festivals. State Urban Development Secretary, Vinay Kumar Choubey in this connection on Wednesday inspected Bariatu and Kanta toli roads -- the condition of the two roads is very poor as potholes have covered these roads. Officials from JUIDCO including project director technical Ramesh Kumar accompanied the secretary during the road inspections.
The secretary asked the JUIDCO officials to carry out the repair work of these roads through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives of firms. The roads, for which direction has been issued for repairs, include Bariatu Road and KantaToli Road from Kanta toli roundabout to Bahu Bazar area.
The secretary asked the JUIDCO officials to float a tender for construction of these roads on priority basis and construction of these roads must be carried out through CSR.
The secretary issuing directions said that potholes on these stretch must be filled and where potholes size is bigger it should be filled with 100 feet patches.
The secretary said that earlier Capital's four roads were to be developed as Smart road, but later the project was suspended. All four roads will be transferred from the urban development department to the road construction department and the process for which has been initiated.
Till the process of transfers of these roads from urban development department to road construction department is completed, JUIDCO has been asked to repair these roads.
The residents of these areas have been demanding repair of these roads for the past few months. The biggest problem is for commuters passing on these roads.