The busy Parsudih-Station road which has turned dangerous for commuters will get a fresh lease of life soon. The state's road construction department (RCD) under whose command the road in question falls has on Saturday floated tender for getting it repaired.

Executive engineer, RCD's Jamshedpur division, Ramvilash Sahu said the department has tender value of damaged stretch of the road was estimated at Rs 20 lakh, suggesting that the commuters wiil get rid of troublesome riding.

"The Parsudih-Station road had not been properly repaired since the past five years. As the damaged stretch of road is flanked by railway station and SE Railway's offices, the railway would do some patch-work on it. Keeping in view of the road's significance, we have decided to do a major repair on the damage portion," said Sahu while talking to The Telegraph Online.

The executive engineer pointed the department prompted to go for a major repair as Jamshedpur MP, Vidyut Baran Mahto and the local legislators, Shanjiv Sharma had stressed for a proper repairing work.

He said nitty gritty of the tender process will be over within a month and repair work will be completed by the mid-April. Considered to be eastern gateway of the city, the Parsudih-Station road is a very important road through which over one lakh vehicles, including heavy vehicles passion every day.

"Condition of the one kilometre-long stretch of the Parsudih-Station has become very pitiable as commuters riding small as well as heavy vehicles have to evade the damaged portions of the road. The commuters have to face difficulties as the vehicles drivers coming from the opposite direction too try to evade the damaged portion of the narrow road, thus causing congestion frequently. Minor road mishaps also take place frequently due to the damaged stretch," observed Aniruddh Sarkar, owner of automobile spare parts shop located nearby while talking to this website.