A check by state highways divisional engineer revealed that thickness of wet mix macadam (WMM) and bituminous macadam in road laid by contractor AK Sampathkumar fell short by up to 50%.

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The civic body is finishing work with catch pits, silt traps and laying surfaces with wet mix macadam to make roads motorable during rains. Earlier this year, the corporation took up large-scale ...

In the usual road construction, the layer above granular sub base will be laid with wet mix macadam. Here dry lean concrete will be used instead of wet mix macadam. The dry lean concrete is laid ...

The corporation had instructed only to use wet mix macadam but however some of the zones have used concrete instead. "They may have relaid some roads in VIP areas but majority roads are bad.

A check by state highways divisional engineer revealed that thickness of wet mix macadam (WMM) and bituminous macadam in road laid by contractor AK Sampathkumar fell short by up to 50%.