Jamshedpur: State food and civil supplies minister Saryu Roy will provide Rs 1 crore from his MLA local area development fund to make a 4km stretch of NH-33 passing through the city motorable.

The Jamshedpur West MLA took the decision around 10.15pm on Friday after a meeting with Mango residents on the sidelines of a puja ceremony held at his Bistupur residence.

"I have been raising this issue at different platforms. On July 25, Jharkhand High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the delay behind the NH-33 widening work. But the agency will take time to come up with its findings as the court had given it three months' time," he said.

The minister added that complaints had been pouring in from Mango residents on the horrible condition of the 4km stretch between Dimna Chowk and Pardih Chowk.

"I took the decision of providing Rs 1 crore from my MLA fund to fill the potholes and make the stretch motorable till the time proper repairing is done," Roy told The Telegraph on Saturday.

The minister had already written to East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Amit Kumar, Mango Notified Area Committee special officer Rajendra Prasad and executive engineer of road construction, Jamshedpur division, Sanjay Singh for a joint survey of the stretch on Sunday.

"Today, I wrote to all of them for a joint survey of the stretch on Sunday morning. After the survey, we will decide on how to make the stretch motorable, which is filled with potholes, craters and puddles. During monsoon, bituminous work cannot be carried out but we can at least fill up the potholes and do some patchwork to make it functional," added Roy.

The stretch between Dimna Chowk and Pardih Chowk is dotted with commercial establishments, residential colonies, apartments, popular retail outlets and malls. It witnesses movement of heavy vehicles right through the day from neighbouring states and other districts.

Presence of craters and potholes not only slows down traffic, it also causes traffic congestions and increases the risk of mishaps.

Mango residents welcomed the minister move.

"It is a belated response but certainly welcome. It will at least make commuting easier which at the moment is nothing sort of ride to hell," said Soumik Ghosh, a resident of Sahara City near Pardih and a software engineer with a private firm.

The project to widen to four lanes the 128km stretch of NH-33 connecting Ranchi and Jamshedpur was to have been completed in April 2015. The contractor, Ranchi Expressways, had given an undertaking to the court in August last year that work would be completed by July this year.