Newspaper technology for road repair

It is one’s hard luck to run a vehicle on all the roads including highways in Kerala. The State is spending a huge sum for road repair work and only 40 percent of the amount so spent reflect in the work. Rest of the sum goes directly to the pockets of persons ranging from minister to his office peon.

Recently in Kerala a newspaper technology has been developed in road repair work. What the repairers do is; fill the potholes with metals or sands and then cover them with newspapers smeared in coal tar. This repair work hardly last for one week and the team is ready for another repair work at the same spot with a fresh bundle of old news papers. The road repair has thus become a never ending process with no minimum guarantee, siphoning a huge chunk of money from State exchequer. The Government then announces that the all the repair work has been carried out and a new cess will be imposed for road safety. The people are then get satisfied, nevertheless, the fear of the drivers persist because of the ever miserable condition of the road.

So in this context I want to know whether this newspaper technology of road repair is an approved one. Have we applied for patent? Is there any prospect for countries like US and Japan to copy down from our latest technology of road repair?

K A Solaman