Road repair or Jugaad ?

City roads are being given ‘makeshift’ treatment

In what could be called as an ironical incident, the GHMC Engineering Wing seems to be following the famous Jugaad (makeshift) technology.  Jagaad is famous in North India where villagers put conventional articles to use in order to come up with a Desi version of basically everything.
 This being the working season, some telecom companies after taking necessary permission from the GHMC for laying of underground cables, left the road near Banjara Hills Road No. 10, near Chocolate room,  in a dug- up condition . The GHMC swung into action for the repairs of the same. The black topping of the same was initiated, but to our utter surprise no road roller was used to flatten the surface of the same.
"Why do we need a road roller? The traffic flow will flatten the surface up. This is how we do these minor works. Besides the roller has to come from Khairatabad and this will take a lot of time," retorted one of the GHMC officials present on the spot, who was in no mood to reveal his identity.
Rakesh Raju, a resident said, "This road has been in a dug- up condition for weeks now, and it is only now that GHMC have shifted their focus to the issue. Unfortunately what they are doing now is worse than the dilapidated road itself. Now we have learned to adjust in Hyderabad, so feel that something is better than nothing. This is what is being taught to us."

When Government vehicle becomes the Roller:
Worse, in absence of a road roller, Cityplus spotted a Government vehicle being used to flatten the road after Cityplus mentioned the need for a road roller. The Government vehicle bearing registration number AP9BD 4327 was put to use in order to save the GHMC some trouble. The root of the problem seems to be the requisitioning of a road roller from Khairatabad!
Road construction in India is getting revolutionized. New bitumen modifiers, machinery and concrete roads are changing the way roads are built. But in Hyderabad, GHMC seems to enjoy sticking to the good old days and carrying forward the legacy of Jugaad at the cost of the state exchequer. This explains the bad condition of Government vehicles and the topsy turvy roads.

--Danish Manzoor