VIJAYAWADA: Recent spell of rain-damaged several major and arterial roads across the city, baring the skeleton of poor management by the municipal corporation. Crater-like potholes and eroded asphalt became a common sight, pointing to the negligence on part of the engineering department officials of Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC).
As per sources, over 350 km roads out of the total 1,360 km in the city were damaged and 6,000 potholes surfaced on city roads this monsoon. Every year, the corporation spends around `10 crore for the maintenance of existing roads and for laying new ones. With demands to improve the condition of the city roads mounting, the VMC invited tenders worth `1 crore for carpeting the damaged roads with Bitumen Cold Polymer Technology but could not materialise the works due to untimely rains.
