Chandigarh, March 27 -- The Aam Aadmi Party's ambitious mega road repair programme, aimed at overhauling nearly 30,000 km of link and main roads ahead of the 2027 assembly polls, has run into turbulence, with contractors slowing down or halting work citing a sharp spike in bitumen prices triggered by the ongoing West Asia conflict.

In one of the largest infrastructure pushes in recent years, the state government had cleared a plan to repair and upgrade an additional 18,000 km of roads by March 2026. This is over and above the ongoing works on 12,000 km of link and main roads being executed by the Public Works Department (PWD) and the Punjab Mandi Board.

Punjab recently received Rs.3,000 crore from the Centre under the 'Special Assistanc...