Delhi PWD will repair 232 potholes by Friday: Kejriwal

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said 232 potholes spotted by MLAs on city roads under the PWD will be repaired by Friday.

He said 50 MLAs had inspected a stretch of 25 kilometres each in their respective constituencies and had given the data to the Public Works Department. The Chief Minister was talking to journalists at a press conference organised here.

Kejriwal had on Monday convened a review meeting with Health Minister Satyendra Jain, secretary of the PWD and other senior officials. The department shared the survey data with them in the meeting.

During the meeting, the Chief Minister directed the department to fix every pothole found during the survey by October 18. When the officials told the Chief Minister about the delay in the work caused by other departments, he said that he would sit with officials of all the departments to find a solution.

"283 patches of broken roads were also found, which will be repaired by October 31 and 272 uneven patches of roads discovered will be resurfaced by November 30," said the Chief Minister.

He said that there are 392 spots where construction work by various agencies is in progress.

"I have called a meeting of all the concerned departments and agencies on October 23, and the deadline for completion of construction work will be given to them in the meeting. There are also some spots where the construction work has been completed, but the roads have not been repaired yet due to a lack of coordination between different agencies. We will ensure that the restoration of roads is done at a faster pace and construction deadlines are given to all the agencies," Kejriwal said.

The CM had prepared a plan to free Delhi's roads from potholes. On October 5, a team of MLAs accompanied by officers started inspecting the roads under the jurisdiction of the PWD. The team consisted of a PWD engineer with one MLA.