Road repair begins in North segment as monsoon draws to close in Amritsar district

With the monsoon season drawing to a close, road recarpeting and repair work has begun in the North Assembly constituency. “Pre-mix is being laid on several stretches as part of the city’s ongoing infrastructure upgrade,” said Karamjit Singh Rintu, Chairman, Amritsar Improvement Trust (AIT) who is also the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in-charge for the constituency.

Rintu inaugurated a road project near Kachheri Chowk on Sunday. He said damaged and broken roads across all wards were being repaired and recarpeted to ensure smoother commuting for residents.

“The road repair and construction work will continue for the next two months. No street road will be left incomplete,” Rintu said. He emphasised that the AAP government was committed to equitable development, taking progress to “every lane and every locality of the city without discrimination”.

Giving information about sanitation concerns, Rintu said temporary cleanliness issues, which had arisen due to technical reasons involving the previous agency, had been resolved. Coordination between the sanitation department, the Municipal Corporation, and private tractor-trailers operators had already led to noticeable improvement in cleanliness in the city, he said.

He further said that a new company, which was awarded the sanitation contract, would start operations within the next 20 to 25 days with a full fleet of machines. Rintu reaffirmed his commitment to provide better civic amenities, including roads, sanitation, drinking water, and street lighting, across the North constituency.

Rintu was appointed AAP in-charge for the constituency as North MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh was suspended from the party for five years in June this year. A number of roads were in poor condition in the constituency as no major funds were released for their repairs from the MLA quota. The residents and commuters have been suffering because of the poor road infrastructure in the segment.