Rain damages roads, MC claims not enough funds for repair

For the next financial year, however, the corporation has brought down its budget for making new roads to Rs 23 crore while for repair work to Rs 52 crore. “As they never spend even half of the funds on making roads, so what is the point in raising the figure every year?” asked BJP councillor Inder Malhotra.

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The lack of funds has often been cited by MC officials and Mayor H S Gohalwaria in public functions.

The extremely bad roads can be see in posh areas: Model Town, Model Town Extension, Pakhowal Road, Dugri, and BRS Nagar.
Roads in industrial areas are already in bad shape.

SAD councillor Jagbir Singh Sokhi, however, said, “Tax collection is not up to the mark, so MC is short of funds. A number of chronic defaulters are not paying taxes which is taking a toll on the development of the city.”

In the forthcoming meeting, apart from Congress, even BJP councillors would be asking the mayor about his plans for development of the city, sources said.

Youth Cong protest against broken roads

Youth Congress workers staged a dharna outside MC zonal office at Mata Rani Chowk on Friday.

They raised slogans against officials. Youth leaders Rajeev Raja, Yogesh Handa and others protested against broken roads. Zonal commissioner Ghanshyam Thori assured the protesters that work on the broken roads would start soon. The protesters threatened that they would show black flags to MC officials if work was not started soon.