Kashmir to Kanyakumari is our Bharat. ‘Mera Bharat Hai Mahan Desh’ (My Bharat is great nation). Due to paucity of funds or scarcity of thought or both put together we are unable to make roads especially black-top roads which can see through at least two rainy seasons. Black-topping is done every year after the rains. The bejewelled Indian bride (renovated roads) becomes ugly with small pox symptoms in the form of pot-holes needing treatment every year. This is a malady afflicting almost all roads from Kashmir to Kanyakumari with no exception.
We may compare and contrast this scenery with the roads in Europe especially in a country like U.K. where rain-soaked bitumen roads never develop cracks, nor create pot-holes anytime of the year – rain or no rain! The so called four-lane roads constructed recently in India with regular toll collections hardly offer a smooth surface all over the length. The patch near Rajiv Gandhi Memorial in Sriperumbadur on Chennai-Bangalore National Highway is a typical illustration of this phenomenon. Super highways in Europe or USA should be seen and driven over to believe their superior quality in erection and maintenance.
Let the policy makers, executing engineers and budget providers make a note of this mundane phenomenon and do the needful as and when possible in the near future.
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