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Before (left) and aft the patchwork connected a agelong connected 100 Feet Road, Chhatarpur Enclave. Courtesy: PWD
Patchwork connected much than fractional of the full country of stretches identified for repair and strengthening has been completed truthful acold successful Delhi, according to Public Works Department (PWD) officials. With the ‘Diwali’ people of October 31 acceptable by the Delhi authorities to implicit the patchwork remaining unmet, the caller deadline has been extended to November 15, they added.
The PWD had identified a full of 3.42 lakh quadrate metres of roads for patchwork connected October 21. “Of this, the section has completed much than 50% enactment and the remaining enactment is to beryllium done connected 1,71,133 sqm of roadworthy that volition beryllium completed by adjacent week (by November 15),” the officials said.
They attributed the hold successful completion of works to dense postulation jams, amerciable parking, and encroachment connected roads successful immoderate areas, successful summation to the festival play of Diwali and Chhath Puja. “Also, tenders for immoderate of the roads are yet to beryllium issued oregon those that person been issued volition person to beryllium awarded for work… The enactment is connected way and volition soon beryllium completed,” a elder PWD authoritative said.
Of the full patches identified for repairs, South Zone has the highest astatine 1,57,165 sqm successful stretches, followed by East Zone and North Zone astatine 1,12,033 sqm and 61,814 sqm, respectively.
However, experts consciousness the patchwork volition lone beryllium a impermanent solution and cannot regenerate due repairing and strengthening. “I saw the patchwork astatine immoderate stretches similar connected the Ring Road, Outer Ring Road that connects the Modi Mill country and Chirag Dilli… All these works are done manually utilizing acold mix. The manual patchwork utilizing hammers volition enactment for a twelvemonth (only) until adjacent monsoon,” said S Velmurugan, main scientist, Central Road Research of India.
Such patchwork besides gets damaged rapidly if the roadworthy is often utilized by dense vehicles, helium added. “For instance, the Outer Ring Road stretches from Modi Mill to IIT Flyover, Nehru Place connects to Faridabad, Badarpur, etc, and regular sees a ample fig of dense vehicles. So, connected specified roads, this patchwork volition peel disconnected successful two-three months,” helium said, adding, “It makes the roadworthy uneven, making it tougher for commuters… The agencies should opt for instrumentality patchwork arsenic it volition support the roadworthy adjacent and it volition past longer,” helium said.
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