If Pune's roads are wearing off faster than they should, potholes appear after the first few showers and there is heavy waterlogging, blame it on the lack of a clear policy to build better and longer-lasting roads. The high-powered standing technical advisory committee, set up in 2007 by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), has not met since February 2009. Its task was to frame a policy that would improve the quality of roads.
 
 Pramod Nirbhavane, Additional city engineer said the civic body had not called a meeting of the panel for the past three years. However, most suggestions made by the committee in 2007 have been implemented. It has helped improve the quality of roads in the city, he added.
 
 The nine-member panel, headed by a former principal secretary of the Public Works Department was expected to study the organisational and management aspects of road construction, suggest technical measures to improve the quality of design, specifications and construction of roads and their upkeep.