Water-logged city roads make it a harrowing time for commuters

Ludhiana: Commuters had a tough time while driving on city roads on Saturday due to heavy downpour and water-logging in many areas. Due to water-logging, they were finding it difficult to avoid potholes on roads and faced difficulty in driving. Though municipal corporation officials had got patch work done on some roads, due to frequent rainfall the patch work also got damaged. The officials blamed the bad weather conditions for damage to roads.
Since Saturday morning, continuous rainfall was witnessed which resulted in water-logging in many areas, including Haibowal, Hambran Road, Chandigarh Road, Jassian Road and many stretches of the national highway. Potholed-roads troubled residents in Civil Lines, Chuharpur Road, Civil City, Chander Nagar, Model Town, Model Town Extension, Naveen Nagar, Maya Nagar, etc.
Congress worker Parminder Mehta while mentioning about the potholed roads said due to untimely rain the patch work done recently had got damaged and it had also exposed the poor quality material being used in construction of roads. He asked mayor Balkar Sandhu for constituting a committee for conducting checking of the material used in the repair of roads. He said the civic body was already facing tough time due to paucity of funds and officials were not paying attention towards quality work. He demanded strict action against such corrupt officials after an inquiry.
A resident of Civil City, Krishan Sharma, said the roads were actually in a pathetic condition and due to rainfall the situation had turned worst. He said there was need to find an alternative for bitumen roads and instead of using bitumen, cemented or some other material for roads should be used.
Meanwhile, the mayor said water-logging was at scattered locations as water on most of the roads got cleared quickly. However, he admitted that there were potholes on roads but he claimed that as soon as the weather would improve they would start repairing/recarpeting roads in the city.