CHANDIGARH: Road recarpeting stopped owing to the monsoon is set to resume in the city. The engineering department of the municipal corporation (MC) will start the remaining works of the last financial year from next week.
Around Rs 38 crore was approved to recarpet 221 kilometre of roads. The works were allotted to successful contractors across the city. The engineering department had completed half of the job before July.
“A total of 121 km of road is already recarpeted with Rs 20 crore. The remaining work of 100 km of road will resume from next week. The engineering department has prepared a detailed plan,” sources said.
A majority of the area is of paid parking lots in key commercial areas. “Around 30 km parking area of Sector 17 is part of the 100km roads. A huge area of parking of Sector 35 market will also be recarpeted. Sector dividing roads and internal roads of some sectors will also be recarpeted,” a senior officer said.
The sum of Rs 38 crore was allotted in March. The contractors had been facing major issue of labourers earlier. As a result, the pace of work had slowed down. Since there are three divisions in the building and road (B&R) wing of the MC’s engineering department, the civic body has prepared the estimates division-wise, so that all the required roads can be covered.
