India, Feb. 15 -- The Public Works Department (PWD) has issued new guidelines for road maintenance, making it mandatory to maintain a road history register, a chain of command, and chainage (measurement used for surveying of road) details at every 50 meters along all its roads. The move aims to ensure transparency and facilitate better tracking of road repair projects, officials aware of the matter said.

A PWD order emphasised the importance of maintaining chainage for accurate expenditure tracking. "In order to keep the proper record of expenditure on road works, it is hereby directed that chainage must be marked on each and every road under PWD GNCTD (Govt. of NCT of Delhi), and its sanctity must be strictly maintained. All estimates s...