NEW DELHI: Most Delhiites, on an average, spend a couple of hours travelling on the city roads on any given day and keep cursing the traffic, the potholed roads and the polluted air they are forced to inhale.

However, if the "Road Monitor" designed by four students of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon, is implemented, cleaner, dust-free roads and a healthy atmosphere could soon be a reality!

The final year students of mechanical engineering -- Samarth Ghadge, Goldi Gupta, Akant Khandoori and Deepak Jindal -- have for the past year been working on a "road cleaning" equipment that claims to enhance driving conditions and provide a fast and efficient way of road maintenance.

"Our Road Monitor will ensure longer life for the urban and rural road circuits. It will also help in providing a clean atmosphere since it absorbs the dust clouds and suspended carbon particulates emitted by vehicles and filters it through its micro filtration. It would remove water from the roads after rains, offering greater driving stability and reducing the risk of accidents," claims Samarth.

The Road Monitor can clean and maintain, on an average, 150 km of a road every day. The students claim that it generates its own power to drive its contraptions, and has negligible operating cost.

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