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GUNTUR: Bad roads were quite a common sight a decade ago. However, it is not corruption that is the reason for bad roads, lack of application of knowledge by majority of field-level engineers on some vital points that makes or breaks a road causing an irreparable damage . Some government department running a website and an interactive blog for its field staff may sound strange but it is a reality.

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A month ago country’s unique blog or ‘Weblog’ for Road and Building Construction Engineers in AndhraPradesh (http://aproadbuildqa.blogspot.com) began functioning. Roads and Buildings Chief Engineer Quality Control D.V. Bhavanna Rao having successfully demonstrated several of his theories on road laying and repairing came up with this idea of ‘blog’ that has become an instant hit among department engineers and setting a benchmark for all engineers countrywide in other departments also.

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Technology-friendly CE took the help of a computer-savvy draughtsman of Visakhapatnam R&B Circle D.S. Varma, the blog has been designed incorporating all important aspects for improving the quality maintenance and construction precautions of Roads, Buildings and Bridges. It also contains power-point presentations on technical aspects, rates of cement, steel and bitumen, SSRs, GOs, circulars, phone numbers and addresses of engineers. Photographs of ongoing and completed works and links of many civil engineering websites . A layman can also understand the presentations and some of the content. “Community works can now be monitored by locals and find out if contractor or engineer properly looked into the quality so that hard-earned money of the tax-payers does not go down the drain," says Mr. Bhavanna Rao. The Andhra Pradesh Roads and Buildings Department has already installed a website with its address: www.aproads.com. Engineers are motivated to visit the site regularly for improvement in the performance by sending e-mail addresses along with their phone numbers and photographs of ongoing and completed works for updating on the blog.

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Divided into four sections it incorporates all the questions and answers for common problems that crop up at seminars and workshops . The dream is to have a blog for each department and link them to this central one to ensure a transparent working system. Printer friendly page Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

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