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The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has drawn up a list of 132 roads that are riddled with potholes and need immediate repairs.
Immediate repairs in Calcutta means patchwork repair that does not last beyond a few spells of rain.
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Some of Calcutta s busiest roads are in bad shape, including SP Mukherjee Road, Harish Mukherjee Road, Ultadanga Main Road, AJC Bose Road and Cossipore Road. The Park Circus seven-point crossing is in poor shape, too.
The gaping potholes suggest the roads were not built in a manner to withstand the type of rain the city gets, engineers said.
The water that had accumulated on some stretches seeped in because of irregularities in the process of compaction of materials that form the sub-base, the layer just beneath the road surface.