Ludhiana, May 15 -- The road carpeting work on the elevated road on Jagraon bridge has been stuck for the last few weeks, leaving an uneven road jeopardising the safety of commuters.

The old asphalt layer was scraped around early April to lay a new layer. But only parts of it have been blacktopped. The road coming into the city is without an asphalt layer at irregular intervals while the speed lane on the side going towards Jalandhar bypass is totally without any block topping. This has led to accidents as speeding on the uncovered part of the road causes imbalance.

Activist Parminder Mehta, who has been taking up the issue with the municipal corporation, said that the contractor stopped the work about a month ago, soon after starting....