Lack of funds hampers road maintenance

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Roads are in bad shape due to lack of funds

Lack of funds is adversely hampering government efforts to rehabilitate and maintain major road network in the country, an official has said.

Roads department director, Kgakgamatso Kalasi told the media this week that government had embarked on a massive road maintenance programme in the country but the major drawback was lack of funding.

She noted that a roads condition survey of 2014 recommended an ideal budget of P3.08 billion per annum using the recommended multi-year preventative and rehabilitation plans for the next 10 years.

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Lack of funds hampers road maintenance

Lack of funds is adversely hampering government efforts to rehabilitate and maintain major road network in the country, an official has said.

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