It’s a smooth ride to Cantt’s def areas, but civic roads in tatters

Secunderabad: While roads leading to defence institutions within Secunderabad Cantonment are dust-free and have proper traffic signs, the same cannot be said for roads leading to residential areas. The cantonment’s engineering wing said that they had taken up a marathon exercise to fill potholes and repair BT roads but many stretches in Bowenpally, Trimulgherry, Karkhana and Bolarum were yet to be attended to.

“Soon after the rainy season is over, pothole filling and patch works will be taken up,” cantonment engineer Gopala Krishna Das told TOI.

Locals in cantonment said that their taxes should be prioritised for two purposes — fixing roads and solving water problems. “It is unfortunate that we are living amid a lack of civic amenities,” said BN Dhanunjay, a resident of Diamond Point, Bowenpally.