After Mayor’s inspection, Ludhiana MC repairs badly broken Gill Road

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 10

As commuters had been facing a lot of inconvenience due to water accumulation on the badly broken Gill Road stretch, Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu on Tuesday inspected the road.

He directed officials to get the road repaired immediately.

Even days after the recent rainfall, the Municipal Corporation (MC) had failed to get accumulated water removed from Gill Road (Malerkotla Road) near Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Ludhiana, leaving the commuters in trouble. Traffic jams were also being witnessed on the waterlogged stretch that is in a shambles.

A resident of the Gill Road area, Sikandar Singh, said: “Waterlogging is a major problem on the road due to which we had suffered a lot. Two-wheeler riders generally lose balance on the potholed stretch. The broken road is damaging vehicles too. The MC must install a drainage system to avoid waterlogging and afterwards, the road should be reconstructed.”

The Mayor said: “Even after six days, water was still accumulated on the stretch. I had visited the site yesterday and directed officials to take immediate steps to get the water removed and repair the road. Later, we contacted the principal of GNDEC so that required steps be taken to get the accumulated water removed.”

“The repair work was carried out last night when the traffic movement was slow. I visited the road again early this morning. Except for one pothole, the road had been repaired. I also directed the officials to get the remaining pothole repaired also,” he said.

The Mayor said tenders for recarpeting of the road had already been floated and the work would be completed by December. The waterlogging issue would also be resolved.

Sandhu said they would get a stormwater drainage system installed to resolve the chronic waterlogging problem on the stretch.

People from various villages and areas located on Malerkotla Road would get a relief from the three-decades old waterlogging problem after the installation of the drainage system.