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said the mayor has instructed the immediate restoration of damaged roads.

“Rain and construction works by CDA and WASA have damaged many main roads, but we are working on repairs,” he said.

Mohammed Ariful Islam, project director of Package-1 of Chattogram WASA’s STP, said, “We have already paid 82 crore takas to the city corporation to permanently repair the roads where our work is complete. We have held coordination meetings and are implementing the project with the CCC’s cooperation.

“In areas where roads are completely unusable, we are covering them with bricks or, in some cases, casting concrete at our own expense. If the city corporation carpeted the roads immediately after we finished, people would not have to suffer so much.”

CDA Elevated Expressway Project Director Mahfuzur Rahman told The Daily Star, “We had excavated the roads and later repaired them after completing the work. We did not take any permission from the CCC. For the elevated expressway construction, we re-carpeted the roads that were damaged during the process.”

He added, “We also re-carpeted roads damaged during the construction of the expressway ramps. In the Nimtala area, we recently carried out carpeting after completing our work, but now WASA’s construction is underway there, and they have damaged the road again. We are not responsible for that.”