We should primarily take good care and pride of our National Highways. It is indeed a little satisfaction to see that work is somehow being carried out; as the state of our National Highway near St Francis Xavier’s Chapel, Navelim, is pathetic. There are huge potholes. The craters are so bad that the road being a two-way traffic road has to be operated as a one way at that junction! Imagine the plight of the patient in an ambulance due to the pathetic condition of the road! The traffic halting alternately for use as a single lane can be the cause for loss of a life too. Not to fail to mention a four-wheeler sailing rather than driving at that junction!
The contractors should be definitely fined for not doing the work undertaken, to perfection; as well as the various departments responsible for digging and not getting the roads tarred back to safety well before monsoon. In fact be fined the whole year round at any given point of time at which the work is being completed imperfectly. The whole stretch of road on the left hand side towards Margao is indented making it so difficult for two wheelers to ride at the side thus forcing them to ride in the centre and causing a hindrance to four wheelers. We hope the concerned authorities will do the needful before a grave mishap.
