Roads all over the world have a service life of at least five
years, extending up to 30 years! but in Hyderabad it is just a few months or a
year at the most! The above pictures are of the road in front of our house –
Prenderghast Road, and the pictures at the bottom of this article are of an
adjacent road – Sirdar Patel Road. This morning I went out to capture these
pictures. The condition is much worse all along these two roads and the other three
roads adjoining our house that is Mahatma Gandhi Road, Minister Road and
Sarojini Devi Road. I am not saying all roads in the Twin Cities of Hyderabad
and Secunderabad are bad but most roads certainly are, with potholes, cracks,
sudden depressions, dislodged loose gravel and clouds of dust rising from such
places, enough to irritate us and gradually damage our vehicles.
Someday they will be shabbily repaired or re-laid to last just for
a few months, to benefit those involved in the works and for our convenience! I
wish the period of convenience for the citizens would last forever and then
what is the benefit for those involved in ordering and executing frequent road
repairs and re-laying.
This is one of the many ways in which corruption affects us – a very
obvious and blatant outfall of corruption that you can see in front of your
houses and every few feet on certain roads.
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