Road maintenance likely to resume in rural areas

CHENNAI: The Highways Department is planning to resume road maintenance with limited workforce in rural areas after the State government decided to relax lockdown measures from April 20. A GO issued by the government has included road works among the activities exempted from the lockdown.

The department has also asked its officials to study the feasibility of resuming civil works for the ongoing projects. While there is no restriction on carrying out road works in rural areas, labourers should not be transported by vehicles from other towns or districts for the works in corporations and municipality areas. Instead, only those reside in the vicinity should be engaged.