In 2009 the Federal Ministry of Works conceived the idea to include the periodic maintenance component under the Federal Roads Development Project (FRDP)

in order to salvage some fast disintegrating important roads within the nation road network. In line with this concept, RSDT collaborated with the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for the selection of candidate roads. After a series of meetings with the World Bank, a list of 21 roads were approved during the restructuring mission for this component which comes in two phases, 14 roads in phase I. The periodic maintenance work of the first, second, third and fourth batches of roads comprising of 14 roads have been completed. The scope of works for all these roads includes site clearance, scarification and pulverization of existing asphalt and surface dressing, cutting out and repairs of potholes, laying of asphalt, blowing out and repair of cracks, construction of lined drains, culverts and turnouts, and provision road markings with each of them having its own peculiarity in scope.