Roads start to crumble after just 21mm rainfall

  • | Sunday | 15th July, 2018

If roads start crumbling with barely no rainfall at all, what will happen during heavy showers. All city roads need to be checked immediately,” said Prateek Panwal a resident of Sector 12. We plan to rectify it on Sunday afternoon.”Another cave-in was spotted near Sector 55-56 Rapid Metro station. At present, some of the drains are only two-feet wide,” he added.Lalit Arora, superintending engineer, GMDA, said, “We are in the process of making bigger drains. I feel that the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) should take care of all the drains, especially during the monsoon.”“The authorities concerned need to make bigger drains so that monsoon water can easily flow through them.

GURUGRAM: Just 21 mm of rainfall on Saturday was enough to again wash away the tall claims of the authorities in maintaining the city’s roads, as there were two cave-ins — one on a stretch at DLF Cyber City and the other near Sector 55-56 Rapid Metro station. There have been five other road cave-ins in the past fortnight.While DLF said they would carry out repair work on the stretch at Cyber City on Sunday afternoon, experts and residents demanded that all the city roads be thoroughly checked and repaired, if needed, to prevent bigger disasters.“As soon as we came out of the Shankar Chowk underpass to take a right turn towards the expressway, we spotted the cave-in. If roads start crumbling with barely no rainfall at all, what will happen during heavy showers. All city roads need to be checked immediately,” said Prateek Panwal a resident of Sector 12. When contacted, a DLF spokesperson said, “At that particular point, a manhole got settled in and the water had apparently cut the road. We plan to rectify it on Sunday afternoon.”Another cave-in was spotted near Sector 55-56 Rapid Metro station. Mahesh Dayma, local MCG councillor, said, “A six-feet drain caved in next to the main road. This propably happened after Friday evening’s rain. I feel that the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) should take care of all the drains, especially during the monsoon.”“The authorities concerned need to make bigger drains so that monsoon water can easily flow through them. At present, some of the drains are only two-feet wide,” he added.Lalit Arora, superintending engineer, GMDA, said, “We are in the process of making bigger drains. But we will take some time to execute the plan. The drains will be made big to meet at Badshapur drain at Southern Peripheral Road (SPR). For sectors 55-56, we will come up with a temporary solution.”Road experts, however, said the cave-ins in the city “are a serious issue and needs immediate attention by authorities”.Experts demanded thorough investigation. Sitaram Anjanyelu, chief scientist (pavement evaluation), Central Road Research Institute, said, “There can be many unknown reasons behind cave-ins, as it happens below the surface. There could be a pipeline, for example. We cannot say anything till proper investigation is done on the entire road.”Meanwhile, weather officials said that light and sporadic showers are likely to continue for the next four to five days. “The rain would not occur uniformly but at isolated places, and not as strong as it was on Friday and Saturday,” said an official from Regional Weather Forecasting Centre.

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