Sadar police station road an example of MC apathy

Jaswant Shetra

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Tribune News Service

Jagraon, May 10

The road behind State Bank of India branch, near Sadar Police Station, Ludhiana, has been in utterly poor condition. The road has been broken from many places and full of potholes thus causing a lot of inconvenience to the commuters.

Being a busy road, a large number of people travel from this road daily. They have been facing immense difficulties due to poor condition of this road.

As per the information, this road has not been repaired since a long time. The area residents said they have brought the issue into the notice of the authorities of local Municipal Corporation many times but nothing has been done to improve the condition of this road so far. Some area residents even blamed use of substandard material in construction work of the road for early decay of the road.

“The road is full of potholes and it is almost impossible to travel on this road. The difficulties increase further when it rains and potholes become invisible and the commuters often remain on risk of falling,” said a government employee who commutes from this road daily.

It was also found that the road was broken from several places and many potholes were present on the road. The local residents claimed the road has neither been reconstructed nor repaired for a long time. Interestingly, the residences of many top officials of the district administration have also been located in the area.

The area residents have demanded from the Municipal Corporation authorities to at least get the road repaired as soon as possible to avoid inconvenience to the commuters.

Municipal Corporation Ludhiana Zonal Commissioner (Zone D) Kulpreet Singh was not available for comments despite repeated attempts to contact him.