By IANS
Bangalore : This is one distinction India’s IT capital can live without. The city’s 1,500-km road network is dotted with over 29,000 potholes.
At nearly 4,000 places, roads have been cut, either by state agencies or private parties.
Civic authorities promise that the potholes and road cuttings will be repaired in about a week’s time.
“The filling of the potholes has started since Nov 13 and will be completed in a week,” a spokesperson of the Greater Bangalore City Corp told IANS.
The work to rid the city of potholes will cost Rs.100 million.
S. Subramanya, who heads the civic body, has been personally supervising the repair work at several places, the spokesperson said.
The corporation could not take up the repair work earlier as the city has been lashed with heavy rains that continued till early November, he said.
Earlier in October, the civic body had taken out newspaper advertisements apologising to people about its inability to conduct the road repair work in view of the continuous rain.
The road repair work has been carried out at night as in the day it could cause traffic congestion, the spokesperson said.
Apart from filling up the potholes, the corporation is also planning to coat the city’s 1,000-km of road network with tar (asphalting) at a cost of Rs.2.5 billion to give its citizens a pleasant ride.