Reiterating that potholes abound on roads and highways in the State owing to non-completion of pre-monsoon maintenance works, Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan exhorted Minister for Public Works P.A. Mohamed Riyas to do a stock-taking of what was going on in his department (the PWD), at North Paravur near here on Monday.
Public relations campaigns and words must be supplemented by action at the ground level, he told the media. “Little effort went into pre-monsoon maintenance works, although ₹322 crore was sanctioned as was claimed by the Minister on Sunday. The Minister also used the word ‘fact’ fifteen times, but nothing he said was factual,” he alleged.
