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Lt Governor inspects damaged roads, orders immediate repairs
Acting on complaints from road-users here, the territorial Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Saturday drove to Ariankuppam on the Puducherry-Cuddalore route and saw for herself the stretch damaged during the last few months.
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Accompanied by officials of the Public Works Department, the former IPS officer issued on-the-spot instructions that the department use bitumen to fill the potholes and craters on the thoroughfare.
Officials told her that around 15-km stretch from Puducherry to Cuddalore had been damaged and around 215 km stretch of roads in the whole Union Territory needed to beset right.
''Nothing should be left wanting to repair the damaged roads and bitumen should be used on a war footing for the safety of road-users,'' she told the officers.
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