Road signboards to display name, number of bureaucrats

New Delhi: In a first of its kind initiative, the Delhi government has decided to install new signboards on roads built by the public works department carrying the names of that area’s executive, assistant, and junior engineers along with their numbers.

The new signboards will also have the control room helpline number of the public works department (PWD). The move is intended to help motorists take up their complaints about roads in the national capital with the authorities.

A government official said the PWD has directed chief engineers of North, East, and South zones to get such signboards installed on each PWD road within one week. Around 1,200 km of roads in the national capital come under the PWD.

“This is the first time that PWD will install road signboards mentioning the names of executive, assistant, and junior engineers along with their numbers. Apart from this, the PWD’s control room helpline number will be on these boards,” the official said.

“The lieutenant-governor also recently expressed desire to put up such signboards on the department’s roads in the city,” the official said.

“If motorists want to take up the complaint with senior officers about a particular road, they can directly make a call to the concerned area’s engineer,” the official added.

A study conducted by the Delhi based Institute of Road Traffic Education on 14 major stretches of the national capital in June had found that faulty signage may actually be behind traffic violations and the resulting accidents.