At the receiving end for long for the poor state of roads in the during the monsoon season, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has now resolved to curb the menace by capturing the roads post-showers on camera. The Municipal Commissioner has directed all the 14 ward offices to first capture the potholes and the waterlogging spots on camera immediately after the first showers in a bid to identify the problem areas and the extent of the problems before taking up corrective measures. "In a recent meeting, I asked all the ward officers to start shooting the potholes on roads, the places where there is a lot of water logging, besides other problems relating to roads. Once the images are captured on camera, it would become easy to identify where the problem lies and also to find out the reasons behind it. Equipped with such data, the ward offices can carry out the work better,' Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi told The Indian Express. In fact, a few of the ward offices, in whose area there was a heavy rainfall on Tuesday, have already embarked on this novel solution to tackling the city's perennial problem of potholed roads. Towards this, the ward offices have hired the services of videographers. Last year, the PMC launched a special website-www.ourpune.com to facilitate citizens to register complaints related to water logging and potholes on roads. "We will start shooting the roads from Tuesday evening,' said Umesh Mali, ward officer of Kasba ward office of PMC. Mali spoke immediately after rain lashed the city on Tuesday. "The captured images would help us in solving the problems in a better way,' said Mukund Bhosale of Aundh ward office. Nitin Udas, a ward officer from the Ghole Road ward office said the video shooting will not be restricted to one day. "The ward offices will decide whether the video shooting would be done only one day or for the following days depending upon the intensity of the rain.' Plagued by poor road conditions, P M Dhakephalkar, a member of Public Concern for Governance Trust (PCGT), a voluntary organisation, had filed a complaint with the Human Right Commission two years back, alleging that it is due to the poor quality of roads and the negligence of the PMC that citizens had to suffer physically, mentally as well as financially. The hearing on the issue had taken place at PMC only last month. The voluntary organisations continue to be unequivocal in criticising the PMC for lack of planned roads. Manoj Mehta, member of Better Roads said, "Due to the lack of planning, the PMC keeps on tarring the same roads over and over again. The civic body wastes money this way every year. Ideally, once a road is done, it should last for years, which is not seen here, due to various reasons.'