Minister Ibrahim Kunju warns KWA, KSEB

KOCHI: Minister for Public Works V.K. Ibrahim Kunju on Monday warned of initiating criminal action against KWA, KSEB and telephone firms if they dug up roads between May and October.

Talking to reporters after a review meeting held here on Monday, he said heavy maintenance and resurfacing works will be done after the rains. “Contractors who failed to do proper resurfacing and repair works prior to the rains will be blacklisted if they failed to restore roads as per specifications.”

He also promised that all PWD roads in Kerala will be made motorable by September 9.

The minister said Ernakulam had been allotted Rs 76 crore for repairing roads and set the deadline for filling up potholed PWD and KSTP roads.

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