CM Yogi Adityanath to Make 60,000 km of UP Roads Pothole Free by June 2017

Lucknow: The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh has given clear indications that education and roads will be two agendas that he wants to address as soon as possible. Taking note of the recent complaints of random fee hike by private schools in Uttar Pradesh, CM Adityanath has directed officials to make policy in order to keep a check over the same and give some relief to the parents.

In a review meeting of State Education Department on Monday night, the CM asked the concerned officials to form a policy in this regard as soon as possible.

Basic Education Secretary, Ajay Singh, after the review meeting said, the CM is very much concerned about the education and the future of the students of the state.

"It is the key aim of the department to provide quality education and functioning in this direction has remained our top priority," said Ajay Singh.

UP CM Adityanath has sought a report from the authorities in this regard.

State government has given a time of 100 days to improve the functioning of the department. It has to fulfil the basic objectives of the department through existing schemes.

Another big step by the Adityanath-led government is the target to make roads of Uttar Pradesh pothole free by June 2017.

CM Adityanath has already released Rs 942 crore for the same.

Additional Chief Secretary of UP PWD, Sadakant, said “The idea is that any person who enters UP after June should feel that he has a motorable road to drive smoothly. It is a massive exercise, but we will be doing a complete ‘kayakalp’ of roads in UP as per the directives of the CM. We have decided that all this renovation will happen under the surveillance of cameras and a public representatives will monitor the work. Quality will be assured along with transparency.”

It is worth mentioning that the PWD department handles nearly 2.1 lakh km of roads in UP and since Adityanath fixed a deadline of June 15 to ensure that no roads in the state should have potholes, the department under deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya has worked tirelessly to identify nearly 60,000 km of roads that failed the test.