Panjim’s water filled potholed roads is a perennial problem which cannot be set right by any government now in power or in the future because they refuse to use their best efforts. The situation gets alarming when the rains are approaching and whatever has been repaired gets washed out within few days from the onset of the monsoon.
There are two reasons for it which will never be learnt by any of the government authorities. One is that tenders are floated late, just before the monsoon, and second, the substandard material is used for filling up these potholes.
Ministers play a blame game just to show the public they are trying to improve or control the authorities, one is the PWD and the other is CCP, but all of them are least bothered as long as their pockets are filled. They never supervise or send their staff to these locations where work is going on. So as usual the work is done haphazardly, resulting in the same condition or even worse after a short period of time. The public is always at the receiving end and although newspapers are continuously raising these issues, unfortunately the same system of delay and bad work continues to exist. Asphalt or the material used needs to be of high quality and this issue will be resolved itself if the full or part of the payment is kept pending for certain years until the work performed proves to be good and then only release the payment.
