Ludhiana: Acting on complaints about the damage to the new road carpeted after the first heavy bath, the city corporation has issued a notification to the contractor concerned, imposing a penalty to them because it uses lower materials, and stopped their payments.
However, their citizenship authority.
Not yet seeking an explanation from officials who failed to stop the contractor from putting the road in the winter when the temperature was not conducive to the bitumen to be set.
Request anonymity, one of the officials claimed that time pressure applied by their political boss had caused them to make a hash of work.
Political bosses want the streets ready before the imposition of the code of the behavior model for the election of the assembly of Punjab, and this has ordered officials to hurry.
The official claimed they had no choice but to free the streets in a certain period of time.
Confirming the action against the contractor, the additional commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal said: “We have received complaints about 15 or 16 inferior roads.
When we checked the surface, we found that Ludhiana’s repair trust had built several of them, while several several years.
Old.
Seven roads It has been destroyed too early, so the order was issued to stop payments to the contractor concerned and impose a penalty to them.
They must reconstruct the road, if they want payment.
“About how bad it was, Haibowal Resident Rishita.
Sharma said: “Civil authority built roadsian roads during extreme cold weather and all stretches washed only in one rainfall spells.
This is a great waste of public money.
It doesn’t matter who puts the streets It is that the money for the job comes from taxpayers.
If officials make roads in a hurry because of political pressure, then actions must be taken against politicians by officials as well.
“Sea is the main problem for the city’s population.
Previously, some roads were damaged in the first rainfall after resparing, raising questions for the quality of the material used.
MC allocates its maximum budget to road work and this time he must revise the budget because it must put more roads than in previous years.
Residents want actions taken against officials and politicians who make them compromise on material quality and who fail to supervise construction in the field.