Local bodies’ minister constituency welcomes residents with potholes, gravels
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
To do quality work in his constituency, local bodies minister Brahm Mohindra had allocated all the development works of ward number 2 to 16 and 18 to 29, which falls under the Patiala (rural) segment to Improvement Trust, Patiala in February 2020.
The quality of work can be gauged from the roads laid around two months ago. With a rain, potholes and gravel that have surfaced on roads in different parts of the Tripuri town, a small city with in Patiala. Even roads surrounding Manjit nagar, Ranjit nagar etc tells the same story.
Residents have raised concerns over bad condition of the road, laid, recently. A shopkeeper in the Tripuri town said, “Every day, hundreds of resident commute on the road, which is teeming with potholes and these gravels poses threats to their lives.”
“The road has been in bad condition potholes have come up on the road posing risk for children, as its a residential cum commercial ares” said a lady shopkeeper.
When asked, have you complain about the bad work done by the Improvement Trust Patiala, an old age person sitting outside his house, having broken road in front of his house said, “We will see them in votes. How will they approach us, with which face they are going to seek votes from us?”
He further added that “the concerned authorities are filling up the road with mud, sand to cover up the potholes, gravels. They just put a black liquid over the gravel, while making the new roads. That liquid stuck to our shoe soles and goes inside our houses. Within few days and recent rains that black liquid washes away.”
When contacted the executive engineer of Improvement Trust Patiala Er Narinder , he didn’t respond to the calls, message. When contacted Er Inderpal , assistant trust engineer, to know why this happened to the recently laid roads, he said “ yes, some of the roads got damaged. We will do the patchwork when the weather will be cleared. Some the payments of the contractor have not been paid.”
February 4,2022
