Telangana News

The recent survey revealed that, 70% of the roads in Hyderabad need repairs. The situation turned worse after the heavy floods in the last September.

Smart Infrastructural Engineering Services Trust, conducted a survey called ‘Save Hyderabadies On Wheels (SHOW) - On Hyderabad Roads,’ to identify the bad roads and provide solutions on how they can be improved.

P Surya Prakash, founder of Smart Infrastructural Engineering Services Trust, said that, the lifespan of a road should be 20 years, but the Hyderabad roads in  couldn’t last more than three months.

“The main factors responsible for bad roads are Bitumen failure and water logging. There is no proper drainage system in 80% of the city. There is no system to dispose water as the roads are not connected to drainage pipes. Most of the slopes are not uniform,” he says.

“We noticed that the engineering standards have gone down. Technical approach and best practices are missing while laying roads,” he added.

Finding fault with the procedure of laying roads, Mr Surya Prakash said that, as the contractors are laying the roads at night, they fail to maintain high temperatures of bitumen in a hurry to finish the job, thereby compromising with the thickness standards, which decreases lifespan of the road.

“If you ask the engineers to provide the drawing of the road they won’t be able to, as they are not maintaining proper structures. The state allocates around Rs. 200 crore for repairing roads every year, but the condition is not satisfactory, because that is a temporary solution,” he says.

According to him, resurfacing which is being taken up as a temporary measure to repair roads faster, is causing more harm.