Delhi Govt launches road revamp amid pothole crisis and construction challenges

“We person inspected each roads wrong a week’s clip for which our ministers person worked time and night. The information from these inspections has been uploaded connected the PWD app. Pictures of each pothole and breached roadworthy person been taken and uploaded. We person identified 89 roads for afloat re-carpeting and strengthening, covering 230 km, with a lane magnitude of 1,240 km,” Atishi said.

Atishi further said the tendering process for 74 of these roads had already been completed and that enactment would statesman soon. The Government volition besides transportation retired patchwork repairs connected roads that bash not necessitate afloat re-carpeting. “As galore arsenic 2,53,000 sq m of roadworthy patches person been identified for repair, and 39,500 sq m of patchwork was completed wrong the past week,” she added.

November 1 has been acceptable arsenic the deadline to implicit the remaining patchwork.

The inspection besides highlighted respective roads damaged due to the fact that of ongoing operation by agencies specified arsenic the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and the Regional Rapid Transit System. “In the coming days, we volition clasp meetings with these agencies to guarantee they repair roads damaged during their projects,” Atishi said.

The PWD has sanctioned Rs 183 crore for the operation of a caller drainage strategy connected New Rohtak Road to forestall overflow and the harm it causes.

“One of the astir problematic roads identified during the inspection is New Rohtak Road, which passes done Nangloi and Mundka, starring to Tikri Border. This roadworthy is perchance the worst successful Delhi today. The colonisation successful its surrounding unauthorised colonies has accrued and the drainage strategy needs upgrading,” Atishi said. “The enactment connected the caller drain and roadworthy volition statesman wrong 4 weeks.”

Addressing the media, Kejriwal said the roadworthy projects are portion of the Government’s broader effort to reconstruct the nationalist capital’s infrastructure aft delays caused by his imprisonment successful the excise argumentation lawsuit investigated by cardinal agencies.

“The BJP’s Central Government implicated maine successful a mendacious lawsuit and kept maine down bars for six months,” the AAP supremo said. “During that time, galore important works were derailed, but present that I americium back, I privation to guarantee the radical of Delhi that each the delayed projects volition beryllium completed arsenic soon arsenic possible. It has been 10 years since we took complaint of the Delhi Government, and successful the archetypal 9 years, we ensured that the residents received each installation possible—be it roads, hospitals, oregon escaped electricity. No different authorities successful the state has received the benignant of facilities Delhi has successful the past 10 years,” helium added.