Consider state-wide policy to resolve issue of potholes on public roads making common citizens suffer’: HC to Maharashtra govt

The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the state government to consider a state-wide policy with ‘concrete measures’ to deal with the ‘recurring issue’ of potholes on public roads and highways to avoid accidents and traffic jams suffered by ‘common citizens’.

The court also warned the state government, contractors and other authorities to prioritise the widening work of the Mumbai-Goa National Highway (NH-66), which started 10 years ago and fill up the potholes without which it will not allow the government to take up any other project like the ‘coastal road’ passing through three districts in the Konkan region.