Chandigarh, July 1 -- Monsoon has only begun but tricity roads have already started collapsing, exposing glaring lapses in road construction and maintenance, besides the administrative will to ensure commuters' safety. Case in point: A 25-year-old BPO employee sustained injuries early Monday morning after a road caved-in at the Sector 47 and 48 T-point and swallowed his two-wheeler around 4.30 am. The victim, identified as Aditya Thapa, barely escaped as the cave-in, estimated to be about 15-20 feet deep, had happened on a poorly lit stretch.

Thapa said he was returning home after his night shift in Mohali when the incident occurred. "It was raining, and I was returning from my shift. The stretch was dark, and the ditch looked like it wa...