Bhopal: A spate of VVIP movement ahead of the state assembly elections, has not triggered any initiative for repair of the city’s most iconic road, the VIP Road. The 4.9 km stretch was constructed in the early 1990s under the Bhoj wetland project assistance.
The 150-metre long bridge and 437-metre road was deemed off limits for heavy vehicles under the conservation project which was to save the millennia old lake and slow the impact of urbanisation of the same.
For over a year, a constant flow of heavy vehicles has battered the road. Neither the traffic police nor the road development agency, which is the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC), has any plans to stop movement of heavy vehicles on the road.
