Dimpled roads to get urgent re-carpeting

CHANDIGARH: After more than a year, the city roads are getting a new coat of tar. The civic body is on with re-carpeting work at a few places.

In the first phase, the road works allotted last year are being finished first. The current year’s jobs will be taken up next. The repair is the fallout of a grant of Rs 50 crore that the Chandigarh Administration released to the civic body last week for road re-carpeting exclusively. The B&R (buildings and roads) wing of the municipal corporation’s engineering department has marked 325 kilometres of road for urgent re-carpeting. The executive engineers of all four divisions of the wing are at work after requisite permissions.

An MC official said: “Most of the sections that need a new surface on priority are V-6 roads (internal roads of the sectors or residential areas). Besides, many of the V-3, V-4, and V-5 roads that divide the sectors and sub-sectors are also included in the re-carpeting plan.”


Asked to explain the delay, MC chief engineer Manoj Bansal said: “Some road works planned last year could not be started due to a paucity of money. It is those previous allotted works that are being completed on priority. The dividing road of Sector 20 and 21, one of those projects, has just been re-carpeted. We have asked senior UT officers for more money for the works due this year.”

Since, on a few works have started on the ground, sources in the MC said the department was going to float a tender for many re-carpeting works in a few days. “Many works will start simultaneously in different areas in a very short period,” the officer said.


The poor condition of roads remained a major issue in the MC house debates all year, as all the municipal councillors raised a voice for re-carpeting repeatedly. They want their wards to be covered first and they said it openly that poor roads were to blame for all the accidents happening.