The Delhi government is taking the first step towards cleaner streets and is in the process of developing a mobile application which will get the menacing pothole in your locality fixed within a day.
A dry, suction-based device modelled on a basic vacuum cleaner is already in use to clean roads under the three municipal corporations, while the app would be equipped with geo-tagging and global positioning system technology.
The app seeks to bring the public works department (PWD) staff, armed with a state-of-the-art pothole repairing machine, to the average Delhiite’s doorstep at the press of a button. “We will unveil both the machines at a test run to be conducted outside the Delhi Assembly on Sunday,” PWD Minister Satyendra Jain said in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday.
A senior Delhi government official said while the PWD was already in the possession of a handful of such machines, plans were afoot to procure more. Taking a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr. Kejriwal said the government would currently only be able to extend both the services to roads under the PWD.
