Recarpet city roads only after removing old layer: Councillors

With unplanned and repeated recarpeting of roads being done without scrapping the old bituminous concrete layer, the plinth level of a number of houses is now below the road surface in various parts of the city.

Councillor Parvinder Singh Lapran raised this issue, a major concern for many residents, during the MC’s House meeting at Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan, Ludhiana, recently.

Whenever it rains, the rainwater flows into these houses, which were once located above the road surface level. The residents have complained multiple times in this regard but the Municipal Corporation (MC) has “ignored the matter”.