Ahmedabad: When Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), convincing HC on Friday that the road and the building department will ensure that no newly placed or abundant roads will be explored by the opening of the road (RO) or the utility service institution must have peered into his own notes .
This is an inevitable truth.
Between September this year and July 2022, road opening agencies – which included the city government, state, the central government, semi-government and private utility providers were put together – was digging 25,315 stretching roads that accumulate to 6.24 km from the road.
It was translated to explore the city road 2.5 times more considering that the official road of the city of Ahmedabad is 2,580 km! This doesn’t end there.
Within 10 months, these agents together will bear 3 lakhs on the streets of the city for installing an underground crossing for the pipeline network and civic cable network.
Individual utility companies will explore anywhere between 10.46 km to 3.274 km from the length of the road.
But how much AMC pays road repairs if the utility company does a bad job, and this also allows road contractors from the disabled accountability period to stretch certain roads? “This is AMC and not a road contractor, which ultimately pays against road repairs if the utility company does a poor road repair work after digging,” claimed AMC senior official.
To provide a perspective, AMC will spend at Rs 1.385 per square meter to fill a 75mm minimum hole.
This year AMC has coughed around RS 176 Crore for road repairs and fixes 25,623 holes, where 4,333 holes are in the western part of the city.