Quick action to mend potholes

PWD to encourage contractors to procure mobile-filling units to avoid delays

Facing flak for shoddy upkeep of roads to prevent potholes, the Public Works Department (PWD) is readying a plan to encourage contractors to procure mobile pothole-filling machines.

“This is part of the efforts to do preventive maintenance, in keeping with the adage a stitch in time saves nine,” says an official.

“Such a mobile unit procured by the PWD a few years ago is now lying in a dilapidated condition in Thiruvananthapuram for want of upkeep. It is best that such jobs are entrusted to contractors in each district. Under the plan, contractors will be encouraged to procure such units to attend to potholes to avoid procedural delays in road repairs.”