Rough ride through ‘crater’ Nagram in Lucknow: HT campaign

The PWD maintains the biggest chunk of roads –- nearly 23 lakh km–of which 85,160 km had potholes.The government claims to have covered 70,030 km of this.

We have launched a road reality check across Uttar Pradesh. As this picture shows, smooth ride is lost in a potholed road near the Awadh Shilpgram in Nagram area of Lucknow.

The locality witnesses a daily rush of commuters, including children in school buses. (Deepak Gupta/ HT Photo)

In the last few years a lot of housing societies have come up in the Nagram area of Lucknow. This road near Shilpgram in the locality witnesses a daily rush of commuters, including children in school buses.

The PWD maintains the biggest chunk of roads –- nearly 23 lakh km–of which 85,160 km had potholes.The government claims to have covered 70,030 km of this.

The UP government failed to completely meet its claim of making 1,21,034 km roads in UP pothole-free by June 15, but claimed to have covered 63% of roads within three months of coming to power.