‘Roads should be re-laid only after milling the existing one’

All government departments should re-lay roads only after milling the existing road and should not lay a road on top of the existing one as the road level rises above the entrance of buildings in several places in the State, said K. Kathirmathiyon, secretary of Coimbatore Consumer Cause. The first bench of the High Court “ordered that all the government departments should follow the instructions issued for milling and the road height should not be increased,” Mr. Kathirmathiyon said. When roads are re-laid repeatedly without milling/scrapping the existing road, its height increases and the buildings on either side of the road are at a level below the road. The tender bid document should have a clause that the contractor had to re-lay the road only after doing the milling and to maintain the finished road level as equal to the existing road level.