Road repair for 17,000km

The Bengal government has taken up a Herculean task of repairing 17,000 km of roads ahead of Durga Puja after chief minister Mamata Banerjee made it clear to the state administration that all distressed roads in the state had to be made motorable within October third week.

“Of these, there are 7,000km of rural roads maintained by the panchayat department and remaining 10,000km are semi urban or urban roads maintained by the PWD. Both the departments carried out a survey and found that altogether 17,000km roads are really distressed and needed urgent repair,” said a senior state government official.