Summary:
The Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) is ready to start the repair works of city roads, the bumpy ride is unlikely to get better this financial year.
The civic body will start the recarpeting of roads in the first week of March and might take at least three months before completing the work pending for the last two years.
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The Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) is ready to start the repair works of city roads, the bumpy ride is unlikely to get better this financial year.
The civic body will start the recarpeting of roads in the first week of March and might take at least three months before completing the work pending for the last two years.
While MC is yet to even take up the road works for this year (2020-2021), it will attempt to complete the pending recarpeting for the previous year (2019-2020) when it starts the work next month.
Dedicated funds released by the UT administration for the purpose are still to be fully utilised by the MC.
MC chief engineer Shailender Singh said, “We will start the road recarpeting and repair works from the first week of March.”
The MC engineering department has prepared a list of roads, which are to be carpeted, but is yet to sort them priority-wise.
“The MC engineering department, along with contractors, are finalising the sector-wise priority plan.
Contracts have already been given, and the work will be started as per this plan,” the chief engineer said.
For more than two years now, the condition of roads under the MC jurisdiction has been consistently deteriorating.
While residents continued to suffer because of the poor road quality, civic body officials resorted to blame game, be it fund crunch, Covid-19 lockdown, or adverse season.
Jagpal Singh, Sector-35 RWA president, and FOSWAC adviser said, “It has been nearly eight years since the roads in the entire sector were recarpeted.