Gujarat CM asks officials to restore all rain-damaged roads by Navratri

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today held a high-level meeting and ordered immediate restoration of roads that are damaged due to the rains. He asked officials to start resurfacing and repairing of roads at earliest. Municipal Commissioners of eight cities joined the meeting through video conferencing.

The Chief Minister said in the meeting that the officials themselves must monitor the works and make sure that quality works are done. He said the the contractors must start the works for which they are liable under the clause of three-year defect liability limit.

The Chief Minister said that the State government will support the local administration if they are short of money to do such works of basic necessity.

The Chief Minister also reviewed the works of state highways, national highways, main district roads and plan village roads with higher officials and secretary of road and building department. The Chief Minister suggested that all the details of roads should be made online so that citizens can get the details of the works in transparent manner.

The Chief Minister asked to start the works of road repairs in the first half of September, as soon as the rainfall halts and restore the roads by Navratri.

The meeting was also attended by MoS Road and Building, MoS Urban Development, officials Kailashnathan Pankaj Kumar, Pankaj Joshi and secretaries and higher officials of Road and Building department. DeshGujarat