Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Border/Mountain Roads, Village and panchayat and Drought hit areas – Road laying under Pradhan mantra gram Sadak Yojana should be only cement roads, Drought hit areas must be given packed food and packed milk also to help survive

The road laying programme under Pradhan mantra Gram Sadak Yojana can be modified as following. Those roads which are laid can be made compulsory as cement roads. I came to know from our highways minister that NH will be laid as cement roads for long life. But actually in NH any issue public, MP, MLA will complain and u can relay and tar is good for NH as heating of tyres will take place and faster wear and tear. And in high speed traffic tar roads wont be damaged. Hence the need for cement roads is actually in panchayat and village roads. Govt should procure cement for this and lay all roads in panchayat as cement roads as life will be long and all weather roads and repeated spending of crores of money for this scheme will reduce and panchayat officers cant repeatedly claim they laid road to loot.
Cement roads should be build by having proper foundation and underground drainage system build along also. Some of the cement roads are laid without any proper foundation and by just keeping wooden slabs and pouring concrete that is not good method. Actually you need to dig up and then base with bricks and cement and steel roads to have proper based and then lay without any scope for cracks to build. Then concrete must be allowed to set without allowing anyone to step on the material.
The road height as earlier must be maintained as in Chennai when cement roads are laid they are very high above road level by several cm’s leading to water entering house when rain comes.  So cement road height at current level must be maintained by digging road. NH cement roads can be avoided can be instead given for Pradhan mantra gram Sadak Yojana.
All villages and panchayats which are declared as drought hit, cooked food and also packed food similar to used by army like tinned food or biscuits , tetra packed juice (pineapple, apple, etc,.) chips, ready to eat food with hot water, tea, coffee, etc,.,  must be supplied to these villages and served at schools for both children and adults in that region alone. This will help those who suffered by drought can pick up strength and start work on farming again. Cooked food like chapatti etc, with side dish must be given. This will help the people recover. This will be strategic move by Govt and real help will reach public affected and the children to survive in tough situation. Poverty and lack of food will lead to rivalry and death at times and hunger if removed from these villages will help a proven strategy for villages affected by droughts. Give them rice, wheat or dough to make chapatti, free vegetables like potato, carrot, cauliflower for the people to make food on days when govt couldn’t supply food. It is very easy work you can do. It wont cost the govt much. Govt can distribute food through PDS and appointing consultant to make sure all receive food. Drought areas of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh will be primary targets. The next set will be all drought regions announced by Govt. Milk must be supplied in tetra packs those which have long life. Without milk many children will be affected. Each day when we eat we should see to that all in our country had ate something for that day this by itself make sure all efforts have reached. PM should be tabled daily report of how much food was supplied daily to drought hit
All border roads must be made sure they are widened and the road size becomes 4 lanes by making way in mountains. The road size in several border roads is very small and leads to lot of accidents. Hence border roads must be widened to 4 lanes wherever possible and also tough roads like to leh and other regions in Himalayas and north east must be widened for easy movement of trucks and army. The roads being single pathway and the vehicles have to get stuck and go slowly. You can spend money for this identifying stretches on mountains and increasing lanes. Your govt will be praised by Army, trucks for food, locals in regions of border areas and in Himalayas and hilly areas for easy movement. It is very easy to put roads in plains and cities but in hill stations if you put that is real challenge and real pursuit and help for the army, locals and food movement. In spite of low traffic due to improper roads and relaying several times and width of road is very small. Ask boarder roads organisation how much funds and army how much funds and which stretch needed to increased width of road. The roads to leh, arunachal Pradesh and major passes needed to be widened to operate even in tough climate and barricading of sides of roads so that trucks don’t fall off the cliff. PM and ministers must visit these tough terrain by road or see the pics taken to increase size of roads in these sections for faster and easy movement. Most of the time drivers in this section cannot experience the place outside since roads are bad and even if a second they take an eye off the road they will die. So you must understand the seriousness of the issue. Ask Border roads organisation and army if they want cement roads in these sections so that repeated work can be avoided and heavy vehicle movement.

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