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This letter explains to the Hon. Prime Minister the following: India’s Rural Roads Manual permits two technologies: surface dressing or premix carpet for blacktopping our rural roads. Both have been standardized by the Indian Roads Congress. However, premix carpet is highly expensive (three times the cost of surface dressing); generally, soaks up water readily which results in early potholes; and not used anywhere in the world. Surface dressing is cheap (only one-third the cost of premix carpet); makes the

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Prof. Prithvi Singh Kandhal

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