It seems Shiradi Ghat road is the cash collection cow for contractors and officials. So often concreting, asphalting, new culverts construction, resurfacing and other repair works are undertaken on this 40 km stretch and almost every year after the monsoon, new huge potholes reappear. During last several years, we have never seen the whole stretch in even normal condition. Still crores of rupees are spent every year. Does all this money gets drained into Kumaradhara and Netravati rivers? Or somewhere else? Why NHAI is so inefficient on this matter? A road on which heavy oil & gas tankers run must be having specially prepared ballast bed which is missing here. These tankers often prove to be a big menace.
It seems Shiradi Ghat road is the cash collection cow for contractors and officials. So often concreting, asphalting, new culverts construction, resurfacing and other repair works are undertaken on this 40 km stretch and almost every year after the monsoon, new huge potholes reappear. During last several years, we have never seen the whole stretch in even normal condition. Still crores of rupees are spent every year. Does all this money gets drained into Kumaradhara and Netravati rivers? Or somewhere else? Why NHAI is so inefficient on this matter? A road on which heavy oil & gas tankers run must be having specially prepared ballast bed which is missing here. These tankers often prove to be a big menace.