Contrary to what was expected from the UT Administration, the condition of roads in the City of Temples has turned abysmal. Though people sitting at helm decry the successive governments for mismanaging things during their tenures but as far as roads of Jammu City are concerned the situation is more disappointing than earlier times as previous dispensations used to relay the entire stretches of roads in Jammu City on yearly basis but now the incumbents only give nod for patch work and that too is of poor quality. Take the case of the road starting from Bikram Chowk towards Jammu University, a few days ago the Divisional Commissioner Jammu in a meeting had raised the issue and even took action against one senior official for the dismal condition of this road stretch. What is startling that despite all this, the road is still in shambles though a halfhearted work has been accomplished which merely is for namesake as people are bound to face jumps and experience bumpy ride due to execution of poor quality repair work. Same is the case of road below flyover near KC theater, and several other roads which during earlier days were given due preference and bitumen was re-laid every season on the arrival of Darbar in winters but with the end of this practice there is no one to look after the City roads as Main Road Gandhi Nagar is also not in good shape though patch work has been accomplished. The condition of roads in Transport Nagar and some other areas in city outskirts is also pathetic and it seems that the concerned officials are in deep slumber and in no mood to do something concrete in this regard. As far as Akhnoor road side is concerned the government has an excuse of four-lanning work despite the fact that the roads in Shakti Nagar area and other parallel colonies are in poor shape with commuters facing troubles whenever they have to pass through these roads. The way the administration is repairing the main Tawi bridge one can guess well about the expertise the UT administration has to accomplish things. It is more than two months now but the concerned agency is doing work at snail’s pace and if the pace of work will not be increased it will take another two months to complete the work which is acting as a bottleneck and is the main reason behind frequent traffic jams on Tawi bridge.