Seminar by MCG to plan for concrete roads

04 July, 2012

Bad roads, vehicle breakdowns and frequently broken roads are some of the major problems in the city. Roads don't last and their condition deteriorates quickly. With just a little duration of rainfall, the roads of Gurgaon become a nightmare. But now MCG has joined hands with Ultra-tech Cement to build pukka roads of concrete in the whole city.

THE MUNICIPAL Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) is preparing itself for the coming monsoon as far as roads are concerned. They have joined hands with Ultra-tech cement to make the city's roads more strong and long-lasting. As per an exclusive report by MCG they have organized a seminar on June 30 to discuss how to make better and strong concrete roads in the city. In that seminar all contractors of the city, experts and company representatives were present. Experts in seminar explained how to make best concrete roads in the city so that there will be no breakdowns in coming monsoon on the city's roads. They also said that roads made up of concrete last 20 years longer than macadamized roads made up of tar-coal.

In the seminar, municipal commissioner Sudhir Rajpal, Chief Engineer BS Singroha, Superintending Engineer YK Garg, SK Sharma, associated with manufacturing operations in the country, and experts like Dr. LR Katyali, MC Ventktesh, Ram Avtar, and Satish Gagar and all Executive Engineers of corporation, were present. As a Chief Guest Sudhir Rajpal praised these kind of seminars, and according to him these seminars always help all of them to get new and updated information on technology. He also instructed all engineers and contractors to use the best and newest technology and machines to make best concrete roads in the city and try to avoid any kind of loop-hole other-wise these strong concrete roads can also break down very quickly if any carelessness is done.

In his statement he cleared his intentions to make every colony and street road strong like of highways, and therefore does not want to leave any stone unturned to do so.

In the seminar, things related to using of better material, process to built and how to maintain these roads were discussed. Experts present also expressed their opinion how to protect roads from having cracks in monsoon and creating problems for commuters. While sharing their experience they told about how to face uncertainties coming in the way to built concrete roads and how to make best use of machinery time to time to maintain these roads.

They also through variety of photos, video clips, data and other related information, aware all contractors and officials and gave answers their questions. Now, let's see what progress this seminar will make in the coming monsoon, which is already delayed, and gave more time to MCG to think about the bad roads of city.