Calcutta Municipal Corporation to repair 70000 potholes in the city within four days

Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee has assured that there will be no potholes on city roads during the Durga Puja. He has added that even though the roads are repaired before the Puja every year, the work was delayed this year because of intermittent rains. Therefore, the civic body has taken up the task of fixing the nearly 70,000 potholes in the city between Saturday and Tuesday. This will work out to roughly 730 potholes in an hour that will make the city roads "smooth" before the Puja.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 2 October 2016.

The estimated cost of repairing these potholes is Rs 40 crore, but it will be a temporary measure - the sole aim is to have good roads during the Puja because there is no guarantee that the repairs will last beyond the Puja.
The magic figure of 70000 was arrived at by compiling data furnished by road and civil assistant engineers after they carried out survey of the wards in their area over the past week and submitted their reports to the borough executive engineers.


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