Ludhiana: Ahead of the election of assembly, Civic’s body has started the construction of a number of roads in the city and in the coming days more development work will begin.
However, the residents are worried about the quality of these roads in the “absence of proper examination, which can cause damage after single rainfall, causing losses to added value”.
However, citizenship officials claim that they monitor road work and strict actions will be taken against mistaken contractors because they use materials below the standard.
Haibowal residents, Karan Sharma, said, “It’s been 15 days and halfway built and other parts are not touched.
The reason must be known only to the contractor or official.
In addition, the road that has been built is not in accordance with the sign, because there are no specifications followed.
In one place, a thick layer and in the others it is very thin.
The previous roads also did not survive even single rainfall.
“Resident from Civil City, Gurpreet Singh, said the streets built in this way will not last long and develop holes After the first rainfall.
He said, “The authorities did not pay attention to the quality of the material and specifications, so that the public would suffer again.
In the past three years, even one road was built in the area, but now because the election is on the corner, the authorities have been in action.” Arvind Sharma, A shopkeeper and residents of the Town model, said, “Recently, the road was built in the extension block of the city D and this was broken.
If a vehicle that has quickly changed, the bitumen dies.
Building the road with bad materials is of no use and me too raised this problem with a higher authority.
“Other residents of Chander Nagar, Jyoti Bhatia, expelled the streets being built everywhere in the city, but in their area the long stretch was still delayed.
“The rainy season will begin and then the authorities will stop road work,” Jyoti added.
Superintending Engineers from the Bridge and Jalan Tirath Bansal Department, “We visit sites where developments occur and daily progress reports are being prepared.
Apart from this, a consultant company collects material samples.” The Mayor of Balkar Sandhu said road work was carried out in all constituencies And officials have been told to hold an examination every day and the action will be taken against the wrong officers and contractors.
He said in the coming months RS 250 Crore to the RS 300 Crore which is worth developing work will be carried out.
Sandhu added immediately after the monsoon was, the road construction would stop.
The main part of MC funds is spent on road construction and maintenance.
The recent RTI application submitted by Acticist Rohit Sabharwal has revealed that RS 212 Crore is spent on road maintenance by the Civic Agency in the last five years, but road conditions tell a completely different story.
Last year, the additional commissioner Rishipal Singh had begun road sampling from various fields and actions was also recommended against officials.
There is no drainage system for rainwater.
One main reason behind the road damage is that the city does not have the right system for rainwater drainage and when there is a water hole during the monsoon, many stretches are damaged.
There is a need to check waterlogging too.