The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked traffic police to submit a weekly report on conditions of Kathmandu Valley roads for a prompt resolution of problems related to the public infrastructure.

A letter was sent to the traffic police on Friday, asking the latter to submit a report on Valley roads, identifying the actual spots, said Tanka Mani Sharma, secretary at the PMO.

“Even in the past, we were receiving information on the roads from traffic police occasionally but we have now asked them to submit a report on every Friday,” he said.

 Amid growing complaints that even small problems in public utility services are not solved for long, the PMO said that it took the measure to solve the road related problems promptly.

Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Prakash Aryal said that they had been informing about the status of roads to the Department of Roads (DoR) and would also report to the PMO from now on.

“The report will be submitted based on the information received from police personnel deployed in the field,” he said. According to the Traffic Police Office, around 1,200 police personnel are deployed in the Valley daily.

Meanwhile, the PMO has also asked the ministries including Local Development and Physical Infrastructure, Kathmandu Valley Develop-ment Authority and Kathmandu Municipality to speed up maintenance works of various public utility facilities.

According to Sharma, the secretaries of the two ministries and chief of two other agencies were invited at the PMO to discuss the matter and asked to accelerate maintenance works in line with the decision taken by a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on October 24.

The PMO has also asked various government agencies to give continuity to the cleanup campaign in Kathmandu Valley, Pokhara and Janakpur in the run up to the visit of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, and expand it to other cities, Sharma explained.

The municipalities and other concerned agencies responsible delivering public utility services such as drinking water, road, and electricity have been instructed to exchange their development programmes with specific schedule, he said.

“The lack of coordination among government agencies have often led to duplication and a structure built by one agency is destroyed by another.”