The road stretch in Porvorim, starting from O Conqueiro junction/Bata showroom and heading right up towards the Ghoomar restaurant, has become an accident-prone zone. A number of bypass roads have been connected to this particular road stretch for those proceeding to Mapusa/Panjim due to the ongoing work on the upcoming Porvorim flyover, with the sole intention of easing traffic, resulting in more traffic jams and chaos almost on a daily basis, especially during peak hours.
The worst part is that this particular road stretch in Porvorim is uneven on one side as a number of dangerous-looking tar patches (resembling camel humps) have been put up near chambers right across the road, giving a bumpy ride to those travelling on this road.
Digambar Kamat, soon after taking over as PWD Minister (somewhere in September 2025), had launched several initiatives to tackle the state's road maintenance with much fanfare and had even promised to get all damaged roads fully repaired across Goa. Now, what has happened to that promise and why are most roads, especially the one I have mentioned above and many other roads in the Porvorim area, still in the same old horrible condition?
Well, if PWD Minister Kamat cannot live up to his word of repairing all damaged roads in a time-bound manner even after so many months, then he should resign immediately rather than making commuters suffer by forcing them to use the same old dangerous, unusable roads of low quality across Goa and instructing his department to put up some shabby-looking hot-mixed patches around chambers/dug-up roads to make these roads look uglier and to bluff Goans...
