Commuters are experiencing nightmares while passing on the roads in thickly populated areas of old city of Hyderabad battered due to rains. Several roads in Jahanuma and Nawab Saheb Kunta divisions of Bahadurpura assembly constituencies are in a sad state, which result in several accidents. Battered roads and speed breakers are the major cause behind road accidents in that area.
Roads dug by electricity department and water board lie unattended for several months. Common people also dig the road for various purposes and do not bother to level the road later. Piles of garbage lie everywhere. People find it difficult to travel on the roads. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) does not take up filling of potholes and recarpeting of roads after the roads got damaged. Water flowing on roads is a common sight. After heavy rains roads get converted into ponds resulting in spread of vector borne diseases. People suffer from joint pain, neck pain etc and doctors attribute that to battered roads and speed breakers.
GHMC give tenders for repair, filling potholes to such contractors who are not professional road constructors. Hence the roads get damaged soon after it is constructed.
Despite locals inviting attention of the local corporators and leaders towards the issue of battered roads, all their pleas fell on deaf ears. Commissioner GHMC has planned construction of roads for which Rs. 50 crore have been sanctioned. It remains to be seen whether GHMC turns it attentions towards these divisions or not.
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