Officials asked to complete road repair work by Nov-end

Kanpur: In order to cross check the ground reality of road repair works of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC), a team of senior administrative officials inspected and checked six roads of three zones that were chosen on the random basis.
KMC has around 1,219 roads with a total length of 737km. In total, there are around 441 roads identified for repairing work by November end.
In the first phase, 68 roads have been taken up for road repair. Out of the 68, 53 roads have been completed, four are under repair and work on the 11 are yet to start.
Similarly, 47 roads are taken up in the second phase for which tenders are being floated. The work will commence in next one week.
For the rest around 330 roads, the repair project is proposed under 15th finance commission budget. Tender will be floated soon and work would start in first week in November and would be completed by November end.
Nagar ayukt and chief engineer of KMC also accompanied the team of administrative officials.
Out of six roads inspected by the commissioner, four roads were repaired good, while one road was not upto the mark and one other was found in a very bad condition.
According to divisional commissioner Raj Shekhar said, "The quality of road repair work of Zone 5, Ward 9 from Barra Sabji Market Chauraha - Vanshika Shop- to Varun Vihar tri-section, 315 metres road was of poor quality. Cost of work is Rs 5.51 lakhs."
Commissioner has also issued directions to Nagar Ayukt to get pending work completed, besides getting the work done again of the above two roads which were found not upto the mark.
In one of the roads which was found in a bad condition, the work was also of poor quality following which commissioner directed nagar ayukt and chief engineer nagar nigam to black list the Contractor SP Singh Constructions, besides to give adverse entry to concerned JE Rakesh Gupta and to issue show cause notice to AE Harindra Prasad and EE Rajvir Singh.
He also directed to get the whole repair work done again in next ten days and to report back to the commissioner office.
Commissioner has also fixed up and has issued review and inspection Dates (weekly two departments) for the road repair works of other departments, including National Highways (NHAI), NH Division of State PWD, Awaas Vikas, KDA, Kanpur Metro, PMGSY, Irrigation Dept, Mandi Parishad,Nagar Palika and UPSIDA.
Commissioner has also set up a control room for monitoring road repair works and has issued a Whatsapp Helpline Number to public information for road repair works of all 6 Districts of Kanpur Division.
Any one facing issues regarding damaged or poor condition roads in their area can send a Whatsapp message with their details (name of the road, location, department, pictures or video of the damages road) on 'Road Repair Helpline'. The whatsapp number -7307420650- has been issued for 6 Districts of Kanpur Division.
The helpline is working from Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm on all official working days.
Calls are not allowed. Only WhatsApp messages with above details are preferred and followed up.
Commissioner further informed that Road repair helpline has received 177 complaints/requests in a single day on Saturday.
"Most of the complaints belong to Municipal Corporation and Housing Development," official added.