Boards with contractor details, work cost to be put up at road construction site

Ludhiana: After receiving complaints about poor quality roads and failure of samples collected from various newly constructed roads, the municipal corporation is now planning to tighten screws on contractors. In future, whenever there will be any road construction work anywhere, boards will have to be displayed giving information about the ongoing work to public. The officials have requested the residents to complaint in case they find any kind of compromise with quality of material or other shortcomings.
As of now people do not get information about the ongoing works at the site and this the reason public do not have any measure to keep check. The officials claimed that now they would get boards displayed at the site on which the name and contact number of the contractor, name and contact number of SDO/JE concerned, cost of work and specifications of work will be mentioned for the people. Not only this, information about the ongoing works will be uploaded on the MC website also for public information.
The residents in case of any clarification will be able to contact those phone numbers. In case people have any complaint regarding quality or other things, they can write to MC commissioner or other officials concerned.
Recently, the officials got the quality of roads checked through Guru Nanak Engineering College and many roads failed the test. The officials gave notices to the contractors who were forced to construct the roads again.
Meanwhile, additional commissioner Rishipal Singh said, “We are going to bring everything in public domain so that people should have first hand information about the approved works.” He said they were taking these steps to ensure better roads for the city residents because poor quality roads result in early damage as well as wastage of public money.
Road takes major quotient of MC budget
For the construction of roads the civic body keeps good amount of funds every year in the annual budget. In this financial year the budget they had kept is Rs 113 crore for the road construction and repair work while in the last financial year it was Rs 100 crore. But even after spending such a huge amount on roads the residents keep on complaining about potholes and poor quality roads.
Samples of 8 roads under scanner
Additional commissioner Rishipal Singh without disclosing the names of roads has mentioned that they are going to take samples of eight more roads which were constructed recently. After receiving the report suitable action will be taken against the contractors if any shortcomings was found.