Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Mar 04: All the Branch roads in Port Blair Municipal area are presently in horrible shape, giving daily nightmares to public. These roads have not been repaired since a very long time and the general public is facing a lot of problems because of the worst conditions of these roads.
The road leading from Shadipur Wireless Quarters to Mazar Pahad has developed hundreds of pot-holes and big portion of the road has disintegrated which is becoming a threat for the riders as that area has become accident prone. Till now the area has witnessed atleast four minor accidents because of the bad road.
The road from Shadipur Wireless Quarters to Mazar Pahad has not been repaired for years, residents of the area complained. Condition of all other branch roads of PBMC is almost same. The road of New Pahargaon and the Anand Marg School Road are some examples. All these roads have been left to the elements and Port Blairians at the mercy of God.
When the General Public approaches the authority in PBMC, they simply make excuses of not having sufficient funds for the complete repairing of the roads.
The Andaman and Nicobar Administration should look into the matter and a committee should be formed to survey the branched roads under Port Blair Municipal Council and appropriate funds have to be allocated to PBMC for repair works of all such bad roads.
Mean while the road leading from Prothrapur Air Force Station to Chidiyatapu and Calicut is also in the same state with several pot holes and bumps. The road is under APWD and is not repaired from a long time and just filling and patching up work is been done every time. The Administration should look into the matter and get the road repaired by APWD as soon as possible because only public has to suffer a lot because of the bad state of the roads.
At least 25% of road accidents occur due to horrible roads alone. Even people who ride their vehicles (esp. two Wheeler) pretty decently also becomes a victim. As a token of care, the PBMC should take necessary action on this issue.