A department of public works (now known as Central Public Works Department) was formed to look after the work of road construction during the period of

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• The size of a stone used on a road must be in due proportion to the space occupied by a wheel of ordinary dimensions on a smooth level surface. This point of contact will be found to be longitudinally about 25 mm and every piece of stone put into a road which exceeds 25 mm in any of its dimensions is mischievous. This statement is according to Macadam.
• The distance, measured along the centre line of a road, over which a driver can see the opposite object on the road surface, is called
• A camber of 1 in 30 means that for a 30 m wide road, the crown of the road will be
• The longest distance at which a driver, whose line of sight is 1.2 m above the road surface, can see the top of an object 10 cm high on the surface of road, is called
• A road within a city or town in called an urban road.
• The central portion of a road for high speed vehicles is known as
• The Central Road Organisation (C.R.O.) was set up in
• The Central Road Research Institute is controlled by
• Steeper camber may cause deterioration of the central portion of the road surface.
• The Central Road Research Institute (C.R.R.I.) was started in Delhi, in