Now, click and send pictures of potholes to GHMC using app

December 10, 2015 12:00 am | Updated March 24, 2016 02:45 pm IST - HYDERABAD:

Ran into a pothole or a badly damaged road stretch? Click a picture of it using your mobile phone and send it across to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). And the civic body promises to have the problem fixed at the earliest.

The GHMC is in the process of launching an app in the next couple of days that will help citizens click and send photographs of bad road conditions.

These details and photographs will be forwarded to the Executive Engineer concerned to ensure that required repair and re-carpeting work is taken up immediately, the civic body said in a press release on Tuesday.

The GHMC Commissioner and Special Officer B. Janardhan Reddy, along with senior officials, on Wednesday held a special meeting on the road conditions, and it was decided to take up re-carpeting of bitumen roads stretching 1,800 km at a cost of Rs. 337 crore.

The Commissioner said the entire re-carpeting of the main roads would be completed before the end of January 2016.

Over 10,000 potholes

On the city road stretches, the Engineering Wing has identified 6,795 potholes and another 4,382 identified by sanitary field assistants.

Of these total 11,177 potholes, 8,300 were repaired with the help of instant road repair teams and road doctor vehicles, and the remaining would also be taken up on priority, the Commissioner added.

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