Kerala Roads in Bad Shape

Petitions on road repair referred to Division Bench High Court ...
Hindu, India - Oct 24, 2007

Achuthanandan turns 84, wants tarred roads as birthday gift
NewKerala.com, India - Oct 20, 2007
... Oct 20: Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan turned 84 Saturday and as a birthday gift wanted people with the expertise of tarring roads during rains ...
Fillers for tar-less roads

Mons vows smooth roads in Kerala
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - Oct 18, 2007
Talking to reporters after the swearing-in-ceremony, the minister said that the repair of the roads would be his first priority.

Bad roads force man in Kerala to switch over to horse-riding
DailyIndia.com, FL - Oct 16, 2007
Mather, who had to abandon his car after it broke dwon on Kochi's pot-holed roads, said that his decision ti ride a horse should act as a kind of an

‘Three months needed for road repair work’
Newindpress, India - Oct 8, 2007
T’PURAM: All-Kerala Government Contractors‘ Association said that it would take at least three months to make the roads in the state suitable for

Achuthanandan promises to repair roads soon
NewKerala.com, India - Oct 4, 2007
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 4 : Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan, Thursday assured people that the roads across the state would be repaired and repaved

Newindpress, India - Oct 5, 2007
T’PURAM: The 11-day miracle to heal Kerala roads began on Friday,

Isaac: road repair to be speeded up
Hindu, India - 14 Sep 2007
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac on Thursday said that the Government had already completed the measures required to speed up the repair ...

'Road repair works to be completed in one-month'
Hindu, India - 10 Sep 2007
'Unless corruption in road repair is eliminated, situation of roads in the state will not improve", Issac said. He alleged that contract for repair and ...

UDF activists stage roadblocks in Kerala
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 11 Sep 2007
“Unless corruption in road repair is eliminated, situation of roads in the state will not improve”, he added. Intervening on the matter, the opposition ...

Kerala HC directs state govt to give details on road budget
NewKerala.com, India - 7 Sep 2007
Kochi, Sep 7 : The Kerala High Court today directed the state government to submit a statement regarding the amount collected as Motor Vehicles and Road ...

PWD engineers challenge claim made by Isaac
Hindu, India - 11 Sep 2007
The insistence of the Finance Department that road repair works could be undertaken only by strictly adhering to the “outdated” PWD codes and manuals framed ...


Hindu Road works: Chandy for probe
Hindu, India - 10 Sep 2007
Addressing the demonstration, Kerala Congress(M) leader KM Mani said the time had come to dislodge the corrupt and unpopular LDF Government. ...

Road repairs within a month
Hindu, India - 10 Sep 2007
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Government had taken all steps necessary to complete repair of major roads in one month, Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac told the ...

Repaired roads damaged again: PWD
Hindu, India - 13 Sep 2007
Kochi: The Public Works Department (PWD) informed the Kerala High Court on Thursday that repair of roads in the city was completed by August 21. ...

Roads in bad shape even after court deadline
Hindu, India - 4 Sep 2007
Many road- and bridge-development projects have been abandoned half way, examples being the work on MC Road and others under the Kerala State Transport ...