Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has launched a drive to repair roads of the state within 40 days. The CM has also allocated Rs 1,400 crore for the repair work. The state has set 15 June as the deadline for the project as the CM wants the work to be completed before the onset of monsoon.
Adityanath is also skeptical of the construction material used for the repair of the road. He is also expected to pay surprise visits to the repair work site to check the quality of the material being used.
Additional chief secretary of UP, Public Works Department (PWD), Sadakant, said “The idea is that any person who enters UP after June should feel that he has a motorable road to drive smoothly. It is a massive exercise, but we will be doing a complete ‘kayakalp’ of roads in UP as per the directives of the CM. We have decided that all this renovation will happen under the surveillance of cameras and public representatives will monitor the work. Quality will be assured along with transparency.”
Earlier, PWD which handles nearly 210,000 km of roads in UP, identified nearly 60,000 km of roads with potholes. The department is headed by UP deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.
It could also be recalled that the CM of Uttar Pradesh had given clear indications that education and roads will be two agendas that he wants to address as soon as possible in his first cabinet meeting.
