Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, Oct. 2 : National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has ordered Ahmedabad-based private firm to fill up potholes along NH-33 stretch between Dimna Chowk and Pardih in Mango on an urgent basis to avoid inconvenience to commuters during puja festivity.
The directive asks the private firm to use all its resources to fill up the craters and potholes using stone chips for the time being before puja so that people do not face hardship in commuting during puja.
�We have asked the private firm officials who said that their work was hampered by heavy vehicles parked illegally alongside NH-33 and also encroachment on drainage along NH-33 which leads to water logging aggravating the problem. However, we are trying our best to ensure that potholes are filled up before puja,� an official.
BJP leader Vikash Singh said that a road roller was pressed into
service this afternoon to patch up the potholes. �The work has started and they
have promised to work even in evening to fill up the potholes. We can only hope
that big potholes are filled up before puja rush,� he said.
Another local resident said that the rising cases of mishaps on the rise at
100-kms-long stretch from Pardih to Baharagora on the NH-33 is really shocking.
With Monsoon rains, water clogging on the road has added to the woes. In the
last one decade the rise of vehicles particularly, four wheelers have
registered manifold increase with each family possessing at least, two-wheeler
on an average. However, the darker side of the picture is that annually above
thousand road accidents are taking place in and around the city and four to
five accidents (including small and moderate accidents) daily on an average in which
more than 100 odd people are losing their lives. It is high time that steps are
taken to curb the situation.
A lorry driver who makes at least 10 trips on this stretch a month, said even
drivers of heavy vehicles like his find it challenging to negotiate the
stretch. Broken axles and suspension system have been the common complaints
from drivers and owners of heavy vehicles even as toppling of lorries was a
regular phenomenon, he said. The bitumen surface on the ghat stretch has almost
worn out and craters have surfaced on the road. Heavy vehicles and commercial
vans usually develop broken axle and damage to wheel base due to the craters on
the road.
