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PANAJI
The Congress has given the state government an ultimatum: solve the problem of the Cortalim traffic jams within four days, or we’ll protest.
Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters on Tuesday, Congress spokesperson Amarnath Panjikar and youth Congress president Adv Varad Mardolkar said that the government had to take some sort of action to prevent traffic jams on the Panjim-Margao national highway. The solutions given by the Congress were either to deploy more traffic police, or put in place traffic signals.
Further, the Congress slammed the Public Works Department (PWD) and the PWD Minister Deepak Pauskar for their apathy towards Goans who have to commute on potholed roads during the
rains.
Panjikar pointed out that even the route that the Chief Minister travelled on a daily basis was full of potholes, and asked the CM to at least see that that route was pothole-free.
“Both the CM and PWD Minister had promised that the roads would be tarred after the code of conduct. The Congress had asked that the road works be continued at that time, since they were not new projects. But the government has done nothing about the state of the roads, well after the code of conduct came to an end,”
said Panjikar.
