In a month, city receives 5k complaints about road damage, potholes: Cong
Opposition leader in the AMC Shehzad Khan Pathan said, "The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation spends over Rs 1,000 crore annually on building new roads, resurfacing old ones, and patchwork, yet the city has become a 'pothole city'.
Between June 1 and June 30, citizens filed a record-breaking 5,033 online complaints about road issues. Of these, 3,264 complaints were about road damage, and 838 were about potholes. Primarily, there were 990 complaints from the West Zone, 743 from the Central Zone, and 734 from the North Zone. This figure only includes online complaints."
He further added, "There are complaints about newly constructed roads getting damaged, potholes forming, roads collapsing, and gravel coming off the roads even with normal rainfall. These types of complaints recur every year, forcing some citizens to file public interest litigation in the high court to resolve the issues. Corruption in road works leads to road damage. Every year, experiments like dust-free roads, wall-to-wall roads, model roads, plastic roads, and white-topping roads are conducted, but quality roads are not built.
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He added, "We demand that high-quality roads be developed in the city and strict action be taken against corruption in road works."
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