BENGALURU: Under fire for the pathetic condition of roads in the city , the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has made public the names of contractors and the roads laid by them.The list of the contractors of the roads under defect liability maintenance period (as on July 31, 2017) is available on the civic body's website. As per norms, a contractor is responsible for maintaining a road , including filling up potholes, for three years from the date of completion of the project.BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad said on Tuesday that about 400km of the roads within the palike limits were still within the contract period and the contractors were liable for repairs.The palike, on its portal bbmp.gov.in, has published the name and length of the roads, date of completion of the projects, names and contact numbers of the contractors and the names and contact numbers of the concerned BBMP executive engineers, assistant executive engineers and assistant engineers. The list also includes the details of about 30 roads which are no longer under the contract period.Citizens can now report road damages directly to the contractor concerned. Of the 406 roads, 38 are in the east zone, 60 in west zone, 124 in south, 17 in Dasarahalli, 36 in Yelahanka, 48 in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, 22 in Mahadevpura and 61 in Bommanahalli.See list on BBMP website bbmp.gov.inUnder departments, go to engineering and then details of roads under defect liability maintenance period.TIMES VIEWWhile the BBMP's move to name and shame road contractors will go a long way in deterring them from doing a shoddy job in the future, it's sad that the civic body got its act together only after the chief minister set a deadline to fix roads following a spate of pothole deaths in the city. Also, the corporation's claims of having filled up 50% of potholes in the city may be just for the numbers given citizens' complaints that the cold mix used has already started coming apart in many areas. Instead of a hurried pothole-filling exercise , the BBMP must execute the job properly and in a time-bound manner.