LAHORE, March 19: Wasa has started making cuts on under-construction Bhekhewal-Multan Chungi section of Wahdat Road, exposing lack of coordination on part of the departments concerned.

Carpeting of the road has just been completed. At present, storm water drains and the green belt are being bult.

The project costing Rs100 million will formally complete next month. Work on it was started on Oct 2 last.

It has been the official decision since former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif’s era that no development agency will be allowed to make cuts into meteled roads at least for four years after their construction.

Under the decision public utilities like Wasa, SNGPL, PTCL and Wapda, which require digging for laying their cables or pipes, would be approached to ask them to complete their works before initiating construction work on a road.

Experts say that repair of road cuts, despite utilizing best efforts, do not become as robust as the original surface, making the patches bumpy for motorists.

Another reason given for stopping this practice is that road surface comes of quickly at points where these cuts are made, thus wasting the amount spent on the project.

More than one-feet wide cut has been made across the Wahdat Road in front of the Government Comprehensive Girls High School, while it has been damaged at several points during digging for constructing drains along either side.

Several attempts to contact Lahore Development Authority chief engineer Asif Hameed, Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (the executing agency) chief engineer Khushhal Khan and Wasa director-general Pervaiz Iftikhar remained abortive.