KARACHI, June 13: The district officer road maintenance of the works and services department of the city government has, in a letter to the city Nazim, complained of improper fillings of trenches by the KWSB at different projects at University Road, Al-Karam and other areas in Karachi.
According to the letter a number of departments including the PTCL, the KESC and the KWSB dig the roads as they please without considering the fact that many of them were built very recently, and they do not fill the trenches properly, permanently damaging the road.
As per the international specifications all major and minor trenches on roads where any type of pipe is laid must be filled with sand first, then with any other material. But as a general practice all the departments involved in cutting roads fill the ditches with excavated material.
It is due to this improper filling that roads begin to cave with traffic load at those particular spots, damaging the surface at nearby spots too.
Similar complains have been made by the towns. Some of the busiest roads in Karachi— Ibne Sina, Mauripur and Shah Waliullah roads- have suffered badly due to this lack of coordination between different departments. The main road from the F.B Area water pump to Hydri in North Nazimabad has not been completed due to problems with the KWSB.
The city government is faced with another digging by the KESC on Rashid Minhas Road, from Sharae Faisal to Drive-In cinema. The project saw litigation for over a year. EDO of the W&S department, Brig Zaheer Qadri, is expected to meet MD KESC and MD KWSB to find solutions to these problems.—PPI
