Anant Kumar; Meerut
Now a report through media came in spotlight that the worsening condition of roads in Merrut city of Western Uttar Pradesh are in public resentment and the people to
wake the administration of UP have sowed the paddies in these poteholes.
The people’s complaint redressal had not
been taken in cognizance for care of roads by provincial maintenance division
of PWD, so the local residents had tired of this weathered road that they did
this conduct.
The local residents’ resentment
portrayed banner of pics of MP, Rajendra Agarwal, and MLA, Satya Prakash
Agrawal that had writes-up of 'slogan' ‘We are the big duds, Crop is yours and
watering is mine’
The BJP government in its manifesto had
promised of potehole free roads in the state. Yogi’s government claims to
keep-up its promise which they had vowed in the electoral days, but that the
paddy in the road potehole is the mirror to the state government claims some
different situation of public resentment in the area.
The local social worker, Dushyant Rohata
says, “We have represented ours problem with application to the local MP and
MLA, but they did not heed on our request.”
Another person, Pramod Kumar, told that
this road has been eroded for the past two years and has claimed lives during
the rainy days.”
Mr Rajendra Agarwal,MP, has said, “I’m
aware of the people’s problem, they have right to protest… I shall say nothing
against them.” He added that the fund for the road has been released, but some
departmental complications have resulted non-maintenance of the roads.
The UP PWD has been on target since this
government took power last year after defeating Samajwadi Party government. The
maintenance funds of many state departments’building have not been released for
the Financial Years 2018-19 so the care services have been forbidden by the
maintenance division of PWD.
An officer of PWD told to media (on
non-disclosure of name): Many projects of original works prepared by PWD have been
handed over to the outsider agencies is also the reason of apathy in confidence
of officers to the maintenance work of this department.
What had this government promised and
had been directed by
CM
Yogi to the officers then.
Additional Chief Secretary of UP PWD,
Sadakant, had asserted, “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 a public representatives will monitor the work. Quality will be assured
along with transparency.”
It is worth mentioning that the PWD
department had to handle nearly 2.1 lakh km of roads in UP and since Adityanath
had fixed a deadline of June 15, 2017 to ensure that no roads in the state
should have poteholes, the department under deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya had
worked tirelessly to identify nearly 60,000 km of roads that had failed the
test.
It could be recalled that in his
election speeches in UP, PM Modi had attacked the SP government for building
the Agra-Lucknow expressway, but leaving the state’s other roads in pitiable
condition, making commuters spend long hours traversing them.
Mere one year of its tenure and the
maintenance of poteholes unearth the reality of works which were actually done
or the work is still going on pending under government’s fake claim of
maintenance.
