Ghaziabad to give each road stretch a digital ID and health grade

Every road stretch in Ghaziabad’s 2,152-km network is set to get a unique digital identity, along with a grade marking its condition as good, fair, poor or very poor.

Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation has surveyed more than 119 km so far. Municipal commissioner Vikramaditya Singh Malik said the exercise will cover main roads, arterial roads and bylanes, creating a record of when each stretch was built, where it is located and which contractor carried out the work.

Several agencies handle road construction and maintenance across the city’s six zones, making it difficult to trace responsibility for damaged stretches. The proposed IDs are intended to make repair histories easier to access and allow more targeted follow-up, Malik said. Repair work can be delayed by surveys, tendering, weather and GRAP restrictions.

The survey forms part of the corporation’s annual air-pollution initiative. Officials expect the road-condition records to help identify stretches requiring immediate work before winter, when road dust can add to Ghaziabad’s pollution burden. GMC has also sought Rs 900 crore for 2026-27 for pollution-control work, including roadside interlocking tiles.